Using Python 2

[Ned Batchelder]

On 9/8/17 10:23 AM, Leam Hall wrote:
> On 09/08/2017 09:57 AM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>> I've heard a lot of FUD about the Python 3 transition, but this one is
>> new to me.  What is it that CompSci folks want that developers don't
>> want, that ruined Python 3?
>
>
> It's not FUD if it's true. Calling it FUD without checking is, um,
> FUD. The phrase was "many of the changes in Python 3 are theoretically
> based, cleaning up of how Python does things to make them fit with
> what Computer Science teaches."

I tried to check, but Google doesn't find me that quote, so I'm not sure
if there was further elaboration. I still don't know which of the Python
3 changes were foisted on us by those bothersome theoretical Computer
Science people.

--Ned.