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Author pitrou
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, georg.brandl, lemburg, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger
Date 2008-12-09.15:06:53
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Message-id <1228835215.68.0.307817759742.issue1717@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> The idea was to have one implementation of the work-around (a>b) - (b<a)
> instead of 10 or so instances of this snippet in the Python stdlib
> and probably a few hundred places in other code.

But what use-case does it solve, except for making legacy code easier to
port to Py3k?
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2008-12-09 15:06:55pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, lemburg, brett.cannon, georg.brandl, rhettinger, amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson
2008-12-09 15:06:55pitrousetmessageid: <1228835215.68.0.307817759742.issue1717@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-12-09 15:06:54pitroulinkissue1717 messages
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