On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 6/2/2017 12:21 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> >> On Jun 03, 2017, at 02:10 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > >>> The benefit of making any backport a private API is that it would mean >>> we weren't committing to support that API for general use: it would be >>> supported *solely* for the use case discussed in the PEP (i.e. helping >>> to advance the development of PEP 543 without breaking pip >>> bootstrapping in the process). >> >> >> That sounds like a good compromise. My own major objection was in >> exposing a >> new public API in Python 2.7, which would clearly be a new feature. > > > Which would likely be seen by someone as justifying other requests to add to > 2.7 'just this one more essential new feature' ;-).
Whatever the eventual outcome, I don't think there's any danger someone will read this thread and think "wow, it's so easy to get new features into 2.7". -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
