A counter-proposal to __future__ in PEP 236

L Sommerer lsommerer at ltec.net
Fri Mar 2 23:00:40 EST 2001


> > I should also point out that the "from  __future__ import..." is also
> > confusing to a newbie, but others have said that already.
>
> And that's exactly as it should be: you shouldn't use the experimental
> feature(s) if you're a newbie :)

Yes, but we still look at your code, and we still try to make it fit into our model
(however limited it may be) of how python's syntax works.

Lloyd Sommerer




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