The real problem with Python 3 - no business case for conversion

[Terry Reedy]

On 7/7/2010 9:14 PM, Ben Finney wrote:

> The point, one more time with feeling, is that the incompatibilities
> between 2.x and 3.x will *increase* over time.

For the purpose of maintaining least-common-denominator multi-version 
code, it is only deletions and semantic changes that matter. Feature 
additions will be more common, at least for awhile. The problem of 
backporting 3.x code that uses 3.x features definitely will increase.


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Terry Jan Reedy