Backwards compatibility [was Re: is parameter an iterable?]

[Roy Smith]

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

> I've said it many times, and I'll say it again: the only fundamentally 
> new concept that has been added since Python 1.5.2 is generators.
> [...]
> All the rest is just coloured frosting

In my mind, the biggest thing since 1.5.2 is string methods.  They are 
perhaps, as you say, just frosting, but they're very good tasting frosting 
:-)