On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Michael Foord <mich...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: > > On 12 Mar 2012, at 16:31, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> More to the point, I am approving the PEP. >> >> We chatted briefly at the sprint and I just want to emphasize that the >> external version should not grow new features before the stdlib >> version has those same features (we don't want users complaining that >> the stdlib version is no good). Also, if you have some new features >> you're planning to add, add them now, before inclusion into the >> stdlib; and likewise, if you have some things you would like to >> remove, remove them now. >> > > Thanks. I'm happy to live with new feature releases only every 18 months in > the external backport. > > Before inclusion there is one obsolete feature I'd like to remove > (mocksignature) and two minor features I'd like to add (support for attribute > deletion and a helper function for mocking open as a context manager). Beyond > that the api is stable. A bunch of Python 2 compatibility code can also be > removed in the standard library version.
Sounds good. Congrats! -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
