Why "from __future__" stinks; a counter-offer

[Tim Rowe]

In article <mailman.984957623.24638.python-list at python.org>, 
mcherm_python at yahoo.com (Michael Chermside) wrote:

> Hear hear!! I agree!

I don't really want to get into a "me too" thread, but I agree too, and 
ill thought-out stuff like this threatens to kill the language. For 
Python's sake folks, take the time to work out a way of doing it that 
isn't an ugly wart on a beautiful language :-(