On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 20:34 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Fixing ‘time’, ‘datetime’, and ‘calendar’ was the reason for Python 3? > No, it wasn't. > > Or perhaps you mean that any backward-incompatible change was a reason > to have Python 3? Even more firmly no. The extent of changes was > severely limited to make the transition from Python 2 to Python 3 as > painless as feasible, while still meeting the goals of Python 3.
No, I meant "cleaning up the standard library in spite of incompatibilities" was one of the goals of Python3 (PEP 3108). Personally I don't see anything wrong with the modules, but that was my question to the person who said they should all be integrated but wasn't because of incompatibilities. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list