[PATCH] Re: Remove duplicated code paths

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 10:24:09PM +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 10:44:59 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> > We recently got patch to keep backward compatibility with python 2.4
> > (see commit 54ffc1fc21c446f ). Could you leave off the
> > try...expect...finally clauses?
> 
> Sure, can do that. I wanted to ask about our aim for python
> compatability anyway (I touched that on a recent email). 2.5 and
> especially 2.6 brings lots of goodness and have been released 2 years
> ago.
> 
> Are people running this on python 2.4 or for what reasons?
> 
> Do we want a 2.4 compatability policy?

This is a question I have in mind. Python 2.4 is still widely used
AFAIK. With a recent patch to keep compatibility with 2.4 touching a
very short portion of code, I think we can do it.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht