[Python-Dev] List of Patches to Go in 2.0.1

Martin v. Loewis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:25:19 +0200


> This one Aahz singled out previously as a canonical example of a patch he
> would *not* include, because adding new attributes seemed potentially
> disruptive to him (but why?  maybe someone was depending on the precise value
> of len(dir(xrange(42)))?).

There is a patch on SF which backports that change without introducing
these attributes in the 2.0.1 class.

Regards,
Martin