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Subject:    Re: [Python-Dev] Thoughts fresh after EuroPython
From:       Michael Foord <fuzzyman () voidspace ! org ! uk>
Date:       2010-07-28 21:23:20
Message-ID: 4C509FC8.6080900 () voidspace ! org ! uk
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On 28/07/2010 22:20, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> 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. :)
> 

At the PyCon language summit the IronPython guys said that syntax wasn't 
an issue for them either but changes on builtins *could* be an issue.

All the best,

Michael

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