On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:48, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: > > No, this was not the intent of __future__. The intent is that a >> feature is desirable but also backwards incompatible (e.g. introduces >> a new keyword) so that for 1 (sometimes more) releases we require the >> users to use the __future__ import. >> >> There was never any intent to use __future__ for experimental >> features. If we want that maybe we could have from __experimental__ >> import <whatever>. >> >> OK. So what -is- the purpose of from __future__ import? >
It's in the first paragraph.
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