Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0

[Steven D'Aprano]

Grant Edwards wrote:

> I do
> remember delaying moving from 1.5.2 -> 2.0 until I really had to, but
> I don't remember why.

I remember delaying moving from 1.5 until 2.3, but I remember why. Three
reasons:

(1) People are often like cats, and like cats, they are either curious and
inquisitive about anything new ("ooh, shiny! is it good to play with???")
or suspicious and fearful of anything new ("it's different, I don't like
it"). I happened to be going through a stage of my life closer to the
second than the first at the time.

(2) I was reluctant to install software by hand if it wasn't handled by my
system's package manager. I still am, but not as reluctant as I was back
then.

(3) I was still learning the language, and all the books I had on Python
covered 1.5.


-- 
Steven