simplexmlrpcserver and allow_none

[Fredrik Lundh]

Laszlo Nagy wrote:

> I ran in the same problem again. Many others have the same problem. Just 
> Google for this: "SimpleXMLRPCServer allow_none site:python.org".
> Looks like the 'allow_none' patch was commited to trunk on 2005 Dec ( 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2005-December/048289.html )
> 
> I just upgraded to Python 2.4.3 (it was released on March 29, 2006) and 
> SimpleXMLRPCServer.py still has the old code.

once a major release is done, the trunk becomes the development version 
for the next major release (2.5, at this time).  bugfix releases are not 
based on the trunk.

> I can work around this by coping the whole file into  a new file and 
> patch it, but I hate to do that.
> I wonder why it has not been commited to the standard library yet. Does 
> anyone know if it will be in the next bugfix release?

not likely, because it's a new feature, not a bug fix.

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