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On 03/08/2015 02:27, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 08:34 am, Rick Johnson wrote:
>
>> So what? If i had to guess, i would guess that the hacks are
>> mostly to bring py3000 features to 2.7
>
> These would be the features of Python 3 that nobody needs and nobody wants
> because Python 2 is good enough for everyone?
>
> I wouldn't want to guess what the customizations do.
>

Is there actually a definitive list of goodies that were backported from 
3.x to 2.6 or 2.7?  Of course some bits and pieces are still being 
backported to 2.7.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence