Is 3.0 worth breaking backward compatibility?

nnp version5 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 7 16:31:59 EST 2008


Have a read of this http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/dec/05/python-3000/

It's a response to questions similar to yours by James Bennett

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 7:22 PM, walterbyrd <walterbyrd at iname.com> wrote:
> IMO: breaking backward compatibility is a big deal, and should only be
> done when it is seriously needed.
>
> Also, IMO, most of, if not all, of the changes being made in 3.0 are
> debatable, at best. I can not think of anything that is being changed
> that was really a "show stopper" anyway.
>
> At best, I am a casual python user, so it's likely that I am missing
> something.
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