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Author	eric.araujo
Recipients	datamuc, eric.araujo, rhettinger
Date	2011年05月06日.16:56:56
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Thanks for the report. Could you elaborate a bit on the rational for the change? Aesthetics are usually not sufficient to change things; on the other hand, use of simplicity is a goal. Is is easier to remember two functions for two uses or to have one function with a parameter? Are users confused by the two functions with unhelpful names? These are the kinds of questions to answer before considering breaking everyone’s code with a deprecation and removal. Would you be willing to raise the issue on the python-ideas mailing list to get feedback? Thanks in advance.

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Thanks for the report. Could you elaborate a bit on the rational for the change? Aesthetics are usually not sufficient to change things; on the other hand, use of simplicity is a goal.
Is is easier to remember two functions for two uses or to have one function with a parameter? Are users confused by the two functions with unhelpful names? These are the kinds of questions to answer before considering breaking everyone’s code with a deprecation and removal.
Would you be willing to raise the issue on the python-ideas mailing list to get feedback? Thanks in advance.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011年05月06日 16:56:57	eric.araujo	set	recipients: + eric.araujo, rhettinger, datamuc
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