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Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	alexandre.vassalotti, bob.ippolito, brian.curtin, ede, josiahcarlson, loewis, mark.dickinson, mwh, pitrou, rhettinger, tim.peters
Date	2010年02月13日.12:17:38
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A couple of questions for the backport: (1) should the 'signed' parameter remain keyword-only in 2.7? I'd say yes, to avoid issues when forward-porting code from 2.7 to 3.2. On the other hand, 2.7 doesn't support keyword-only arguments at the Python level, so a keyword-only argument might be a bit of a surprise to users. (2) When specifying the byteorder, is there a need to allow u'big' and u'little' as well as 'big' and 'little'?

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A couple of questions for the backport:
(1) should the 'signed' parameter remain keyword-only in 2.7? I'd say yes, to avoid issues when forward-porting code from 2.7 to 3.2. On the other hand, 2.7 doesn't support keyword-only arguments at the Python level, so a keyword-only argument might be a bit of a surprise to users.
(2) When specifying the byteorder, is there a need to allow u'big' and u'little' as well as 'big' and 'little'?

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Date	User	Action	Args
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