On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:43 AM, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > Ah, the apologist approach.
I'm not trying to defend it. I'm saying that patching the function to fix the issue at hand risks breaking existing code that relies upon the function doing what the documentation says it does. > The documentation is badly written. The next line, > "Note that this function has intimate knowledge of how different libc > versions add symbols to the executable is probably only usable for > executables compiled using gcc" isn't even a sentence. > > The documentation needs to be updated. Please submit a patch. You're the one pointing it out. Why don't you? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
