Re: proposal: bring nonlocal to py2.x

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Date	2014-01-14 02:28 +1100
Subject	Re: proposal: bring nonlocal to py2.x
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:24 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> But it could theoretically happen if Neal wants it so badly that he raises
> an issue on the bug tracker against Python 2.7, finds all the relevant
> source code in Python 3, back ports it, modifies all the relevant docs and
> unit tests, then finds some warm hearted person to commit the changes.  Five
> minute job.  Simples :)

It's even worse than that, because adding 'nonlocal' is not a bugfix.
So to be committed to the repo, it has to be approved for either 2.7
branch (which is in bugfix-only maintenance mode) or 2.8 branch (which
does not exist). Good luck. :)

ChrisA

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Re: proposal: bring nonlocal to py2.x Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-14 02:28 +1100

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