[Python-Dev] Backwards Incompatibility

[Thomas Wouters]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 08:45:10PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:41:41PM -0500, Andrew Kuchling wrote:

> Actually, I've always considered 'exec' mostly one of those must-have-
> because-the-competition-has-it features.  Language theorists love it.
> In practice, bare exec not that useful; a more restricted form
> (e.g. one that always requires the caller to explicitly pass in an
> environment) makes much more sense.

> As for import *, we all know that it's an abomination...

Okay, I can live with that, but can we please have at least one release
between "these are cool features and we use them in the std. library
ourselves" and "no no you bad boy!" ? Or fork Python 3.0, move nested scopes
to that, and release it parallel to 2.1 ?

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