[Python-Dev] Bug in from __future__ processing?

[Anthony Baxter]

On Saturday 04 March 2006 15:34, Tim Peters wrote:
> Indeed!  But whose arm could we twist to get them to repair the
> compiler in 2.4?  I'd settle for a blurb in the next 2.4 NEWS just
> noting that 2.5 will follow the documented syntax.  That may even
> be desirable, to avoid breaking working (albeit by accident) code
> across a micro release.

I don't think a change like this should go into a 2.4.x release. It 
stands a very very high chance of breaking someone's code. I _could_ 
be convinced about a warning being emitted about it, though I'm not 
going to have the time to figure out the new compiler to do the work. 

Anthony
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