[Python-ideas] A suggestion for Python 3 vs Python 2

Mark Janssen dreamingforward at gmail.com
Tue Nov 12 04:56:31 CET 2013


On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Xuancong Wang <xuancong84 at gmail.com> wrote:
> As you know, reading from and writing to IO is a high frequency operation.
> By entropy coding theorem (e.g. Huffman coding), an efficient language
> should assign shorter language code to more frequent tasks. Typing a '('
> requires holding SHIFT and pressing 9, the input effort is much higher than
> that in Python 2. Also, specifying IO has changed from >>* to file=*, which
> also becomes more inconvenient.

An interesting methodology; however, I think PERL already has
conquered this corner of the language world.
-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington


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