Commit 6bdb650a authored by Eli Bendersky's avatar Eli Bendersky

Added the "provisional package" glossary term from PEP 411

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definition), or pass several arguments as a list to a function. See
:term:`argument`.
provisional package
A provisional package is one which has been deliberately excluded from the
standard library's backwards compatibility guarantees. While major
changes to such packages are not expected, as long as they are marked
provisional, backwards incompatible changes (up to and including removal
of the package) may occur if deemed necessary by core developers. Such
changes will not be made gratuitously -- they will occur only if serious
flaws are uncovered that were missed prior to the inclusion of the
package.
This process allows the standard library to continue to evolve over time,
without locking in problematic design errors for extended periods of time.
See :pep:`411` for more details.
Python 3000
Nickname for the Python 3.x release line (coined long ago when the release
of version 3 was something in the distant future.) This is also
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