PEP0238 lament

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <ni1olt8lmseiqracnh1j1oe5coegc11ulo at 4ax.com>,
Steve Horne  <sh at ttsoftware.co.uk> wrote:
>
>I think you underestimate the number of people who will some day
>figure that 1.5.2 is a bit old, install the latest version, and have
>hell break lose over night when half their scripts stop working.

....silently.  That's the worst problem.  Sure, we're silently losing
information now, but old users will silently lose information *in*
*working* *programs* if they skip over all the warning releases.
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