Python is fun (useless social thread) ;-)

[Max M]

bruno at modulix wrote:
> Max M wrote:
>> bruno at modulix wrote:
>>
>>>> Or did you just like what you saw and decided to learn it for fun?
>>>
>>> Well, I haven't be really impressed the first time - note that it was at
>>> the very end of the last century, with v1.5.2. 
>>
>>
>> 1.5.2 was an excellent version. Not really that different in use than
>> current version.
> 
> Nope, "not really that different" - we were just missing list-comps,
> generators, new-style classes, classmethods, staticmethods, usable
> metaclasses, descriptors, @decorators sugar, extended slices, and a few
> other goodies coming in 2.5 like coroutines and with: statement...


I wrote "different in use". Which is not the same as saying it has not 
changed. The general feel of coding in Python is exactly the same to me.

I believe that most of those changes you mention are rarely used by most 
programmers.


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