On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 10:32 PM Samuel Freilich <[email protected]> wrote: > > > that can be used (eg) for indexing > > Even without it being used in as complicated a way as that it's still not > backward compatible because of the trivial case, as foo.endswith("") is True. >
I was talking specifically about the original, which can be depended upon to return True or False. Changing the return value would break anything that depends on that. Not sure what you're referring to. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PL7OP6WC36TB5TGXB3LTYC7KYP454UZG/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
