py3k s***s

[Carl Banks]

On Apr 16, 12:40 pm, Aaron Watters <aaron.watt... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 16, 12:27 pm, Rhamphoryncus <rha... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 16, 6:56 am, Aaron Watters <aaron.watt... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I don't get it.  It ain't broke.  Don't fix it.
>
> > So how would you have done the old-style class to new-style class
> > transition?
>
> I'd ignore it.  I never understood it and never had
> any need for it anyway.  New-style classes and metaclasses
> were a complicated solution to an unimportant problem in
> my opinion.  And also a fiendish way to make code
> inscrutible -- which I thought was more of a Perl thing
> than a Python thing, or should be.
>
> I must be missing some of the deeper issues here.  Please
> educate me.

The deeper issue is that you're benefiting from these "unimportant"
changes even if you never use them yourself.


Carl Banks