making python scripts backwards compatible

[Martin v. Loewis]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:

> development of what?  given the context of the -dev discussion, I'm
> not sure Guido's brain was switched on when he posted that note:
> 
>     he pointed out that there is little point in adding language
>     features to [the Python interpreter] if [library] development
>     is anchored to old language versions
> 
> fwiw, the latest PIL still works with 1.5 (and maybe earlier).  if Guido
> thinks that affects his work on the interpreter in any way, I'd say he
> needs a vacation ;-)

That is taken out of context, though: [library] really was [standard
library]. There was a request to restrict the standard library to
older Python versions (as done with SRE, as an exception); third-party
libraries were not considered.

For the standard library, I agree with Guido's remark.

Regards,
Martin