[Python-3000] Simplifying the copy protocol

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> From: "Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org>
>>
>> I haven't had the time to look into this, but it sounds unintuitive to
>> drop __reduce_ex__ which is supposed to be the "extended" IOW "newer"
>> version of the API compared to __reduce__ which was deemed to be
>> missing something.
>
> Right.  The version argument should be kept.
> Recommend renaming __reduce_ex__ to  __reduce__
> and dropping the older method.

Hm. That's asking for hard-to-debug problems in 3rd party code.

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