[Python-Dev] PEP 371: Additional Discussion

[Guido van Rossum]

I've accepted your PEP. I think it still needs some clean-up and
perhaps clarification of the agreement reached about API style, but
there is nothing now that keeps you from implementing it! Hopefully
you'll make the beta release early next week.

--Guido

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jesse Noller wrote:
>>>
>>> However, the flip side of this is that no one really "likes" the
>>> threading API as-is, so putting the module into the standard library
>>> with the matching API simply adds another "broken" API.
>>
>> Provided threading gets a PEP 8 style API in 2.6 (which it looks like it is
>> going to), then I don't see a problem with multiprocessing only providing
>> the new API.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nick.
>>
>
> Fantastic. If no one has any other arguments to the contrary, I'll run
> with the new API naming scheme.
>
> Now I have a lot of tests and documentation to rewrite.
>
> -jesse
>



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