PEP: import version

Christophe Cavalaria chris.cavalaria at free.fr
Tue May 18 14:44:22 EDT 2004


David Fraser wrote:

> Have you actually used it extensively? If so, I doubt you would be
> saying this...
> wxWiindows (now wxWidgets) doesn't have  aconstantly mutating API.
> But the new major revision does have some changes. The point is you can
> still get programs to work with both versions, so you don't need to have
> a new name.

Sorry but breaking existing code with some change and calling that a minor
version upgrade not worth a new name qualifies for my definition of a
constantly mutating API ;)

> But if a program does rely on a particular version, it would 
> be nice to have a way to specify it.

Yes, and why couldn't you do it like that :

import wxPython24 as wxPython




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