[Python-Dev] [Very Long 23kb] List of Patches to Go in 2.0.1

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Adding attributes to xrange() can't possibly change the .pyc files.
> 
> Okay, chalk another one up to ignorance.  Another thought occurred to me
> in the shower, though: would this change the pickle of xrange()?  If yes,
> should pickle changes also be prohibited in bugfix releases (in the PEP)?

I agree that pickle changes should be prohibited, although I want to
make an exception for the fix to pickling of Unicode objects (which is
pretty broken in 2.0).

That said, xrange() objects can't be pickled, so it's a non-issue. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)