Trying to choose between python and java

[Robert Kern]

sturlamolden wrote:
> On May 15, 7:29 pm, Beliavsky <beliav... at aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> print "Hello, world."
>>
>> a substantial fraction of Python programs in existence, including all
>> of my programs, will be broken. Draw your own conclusions.
> 
> In the vent that your Python 2.x install will be fubar and suddenly
> stop working the day Python 3k is released: how difficult will it be
> it to make a Python 3k script that corrects your code?

It's worth mentioning that providing such a script is of high priority for the
Python 3.0 team. They've already implemented the translation for print
statements, too:

http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/2to3/
http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/2to3/fixes/fix_print.py?rev=54501&view=auto

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco