James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > approach. Basically this is reverse engineering the interface from the > > source at the time of writing the app. > > This is using the source as documentation, there is no law against > that.
That's completely bogus. Undocumented interfaces in the library source are allowed to change between Python versions and across Python implementations. If you write your application according to the documented interfaces in the Python manual, it should not break when someone upgrades to the next Python release. You should not have to depend on undocumented aspects of the Python implementation which change out of sync with the application. > How things are and how things should be have always been 2 entirely > different things. See early books by Robert J. Ringer for a more > complete discussion. That's like saying programs shouldn't have bugs, but they often do anyway. It doesn't mean the bugs are a good thing or that they shouldn't be fixed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
