I strongly dislike Python 3

geremy condra debatem1 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 29 15:21:22 EDT 2010


On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Edward A. Falk <falk at green.rahul.net> wrote:
> In article <mailman.2309.1277758252.32709.python-list at python.org>,
> Stephen Hansen  <me+list/python at ixokai.io> wrote:
>>>
>>> Uhmm, just add the parenthesis to your old scripts. You can
>>> do that without breaking on 2.x.
>>
>>Only sort of. But in Python 2.6+, you only need to "from __future__
>>import print_function" to make code work in both 2.x and 3.x (at least
>>insofar as the print situation is concerned).
>
> Nice.  Once 100% of the installed base is at 2.6, I'll finally be able
> to write code that compatible with 3.0.

I can't tell if you're being unpleasant or not. If so, I'd point out that
if your user base isn't going to be off of 2.5 for the next couple of
years that you have little stake in 3.x one way or the other. If not,
fear not- that happy day will come.

Geremy Condra



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