On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> My guess is that you'd get a lot of push back from folks in python-dev. Won't > a change like this have the potential to produce confusing, wrong, or hard to > track down bugs? This kind of implicit behavior change seems to run counter > to the "explicit is better" mantra. > > Note too that there's no way this would change before Python 3.2. > > I'm not qualified to personally champion this upstream, but I do encourage you > to submit a bug at bugs.python.org if you feel strongly about it. If you > can't or don't want to bring it to the attention of python-dev, I will do so > in a neutral way. I missed your mail due to an evil mail provider, but it looks like doko has filed a bug about this: http://bugs.python.org/issue1703592 Some particularly insightful comments by cjwatson there. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
