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Subject:    Re: [Python-Dev] Thoughts fresh after EuroPython
From:       Benjamin Peterson <benjamin () python ! org>
Date:       2010-07-28 21:20:52
Message-ID: AANLkTi=3yrk5gL3aL3Wacj+KYr+-_WDWgFajqo1u4Vvo () mail ! gmail ! com
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2010/7/25 Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de>:
> Nick Coghlan, 25.07.2010 08:29:
>>
>> We knew PEP 380 would be hurt by the moratorium when the moratorium
>> PEP went through.
>>
>> The goals of the moratorium itself, in making it possible to have a
>> 3.2 release that is fully supported by all of the major Python
>> implementations, still apply, and I believe making an exception for
>> PEP 380 *would* make those goals much harder to achieve.
>
> IMO, it would be worth asking the other implementations if that is the case.
> It may well be that they are interested in implementing it anyway, so
> getting it into CPython and the other implementations at the same time may
> actually be possible. It wouldn't meet the moratorium as such, but it would
> absolutely comply with its goals.

Speaking from the PyPy perspective, syntax is not really a problem.
It, for example, took me ~1 week to more PyPy from 2.5 to 2.7 syntax.
A more interesting moratorium for us would be one on tests that are
not implementation portable. :)



-- 
Regards,
Benjamin
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