Hello Philippe, On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:09:08 +0100 Philippe Fremy <p...@freehackers.org> wrote: > > According to the PEP, the interface may change betweeen __preview__ and > final inclusion in stdlib. It would be unwise as a developer to assume > that a program written for the preview version will work correctly in > the stdlib version, wouldn't it ? > > I would use your "normal" incantation only after checking that no > significant API change have occured after stdlib integration. > > By the way, if as Antoine suggests, the package remain available in > __preview__ even after it's accepted in the stdlib, how is the user > supposed to deal with possible API changes ?
The API *may* change but it would probably not change much anyway. Consider e.g. the "regex" module: it aims at compatibility with the standard "re" module; there may be additional APIs (e.g. new flags), but whoever uses it with the standard "re" API would not see any difference between the __preview__ version and the final version. cheers Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
