On Jan 22, 7:48 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > Here's a thought experiment for you. You've suggested that the values > > returned by cmp() are allowed to change "at whim". Okay, let's do it: > > make a patch that changes cmp() to return -17, 0 or 53, and promise to > > support it for at least three years. Try to get it accepted on python- > > dev. What do you expect they will say? > > > My money is on them saying "No, this will pointlessly break code for no > > good reason. Rejected." > > I have occasionally thought that things documented to possibly change > *should* be changed just to expose the *bug* of depending on them not > changing. Or maybe, the doc should be changed.
Aye. There are places where we're deliberately open, but this isn't one of them. I think this is just a C-ism and the docs should be more specific. Or finish ripping it out in 3.x ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
