Am 19.11.2010 22:35, schrieb "Martin v. Löwis": >> I don't understand all the worry about sys.subversion. > > Really? For a security release, there should be *zero* chance that it > breaks existing applications, unless the application relies on the > security bug that has been fixed. By "zero chance", I mean absolutely > no chance, never. I'm pretty sure that applications *will* break because > of the change to sys.subversion, or sys.version. People made bug reports > complaining that sys.version has a newline on some systems and not on > others. > >> It's not like >> it's useful to anybody else than us > > I think you underestimate what API people actually use in applications > > http://tinyurl.com/292vhxx > http://tinyurl.com/23ah8ps > http://tinyurl.com/27fhyvk > http://tinyurl.com/28cuyv9 > etc.
Well, it should not be a problem to continue to provide a sys.subversion that at least will not break applications reading it. And yes, I am in favor of giving the new attribute a leading underscore. Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
