Marco Sulla <launchpad....@marco.sulla.e4ward.com> added the comment:
> I also distinctly remember seeing code (and writing such code myself) that > performs computation on timeouts and does not care if the end value goes > below 0. This is not a good statistics. Frankly we can't measure the impact of the change from these considerations. And furthermore, `asyncio.sleep()` is used often, testing and mocking apart? I doubt it. > we always try to have a very good explanation "why" we want to bother > ourselves and users to break backwards compat. Coherence and unhide mistakes are *very* strong points. That said, I'm not so much interested in practice. Do as you wish. The problem is I always considered Python a very elegant programming language, and this behavior is not elegant at all. But, hey, amen. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39698> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
