Python Gotcha's?

Neil Cerutti neilc at norwich.edu
Mon Apr 9 08:21:39 EDT 2012


On 2012-04-08, John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
> 6.  Multiple inheritance is a mess.  Especially "super".

Python allows you to get dirty. Super solves a messy problem.

> 10. Python 3 isn't upward compatible with Python 2.

Even minor versions of Python are usually not forward compatible.
In the case of 2 to 3, more help and support than usual is
available: http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/pyporting.html

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Neil Cerutti



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