REPOST: Re: Python 1.5.x vs Python 2.x.x

[James T. Dennis]

Paul Rubin <phr-n2001d at nightsong.com> wrote:
> "Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:
>>> Not bugs per se unless perfect backward compatibility was
>>> an overriding concern.

>> it isn't.

> It's a bug if something is gratuitously, unnecessarily incompatible,
> like "rand" disappearing.  What was the reason for that?

 While that topic has come up: I find whrandom to be an unsightly
 name for accessing a set of functions which is so commonly accessed
 by novice students.  What was wrong with must calling it rand or 
 random?  Is it pure pedantry?

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