Comment 4 for bug 300874

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 300874] Re: embedded configobj imports generators from __future__

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 17:42 +0000, vila wrote:
> You can Use The Source James :) __future__ is a regular python package,
> I don't have a python3k handy but I'm pretty sure the package is still
> there. After all it exists to ensure forward compatibility, it will be a
> bit strange that it can break backward compatibility.

Ah, I didn't know that it was a regular package, I thought it was done
via some magic.

> By the way, what is the rationale with checking imports from __future__
> ? Do you have examples where it break things ?

I don't know, I was just asked to report this.

Thanks,

James