Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
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On Jun 06, 2014, at 04:47 PM, MRAB wrote:

>Isn't this a little like when bool, True and False were added to
>Python 2.2.1, a bugfix release, an act that is, I believe, now regarded
>as a mistake not to be repeated?

Yes, that was a mistake, but the case under discussion is different.  With
True/False, it was a runtime-wide change that affected every Python program,
and there was no such "special dispensation".

-Barry

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