Is 3.0 worth breaking backward compatibility?

[Andreas Waldenburger]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:21:55 -0800 (PST) walterbyrd
<walterbyrd at iname.com> wrote:

> On Dec 7, 12:35 pm, Andreas Waldenburger <geekm... at usenot.de> wrote:
> 
> > Pleeeeze. Python 3 is shipping now, and so is 2.x, where x > 5.
> > Python 2 is going to be around for quite some time. What is
> > everybody's problem?
> 
> A possible, potential, problem, could arise if you were using python
> 2.x, but some other code, that you wanted to include, was writen in
> python 3.x.
> 
Yes, that would be a problem, of course. But I fail to see how that is
not a problem with python 2.x as well. New Style Classes? Generators?
The "with" statement? I use those all the time. Why aren't as many
people complaining about them with the same argument?

/W


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