----- Original Message ----- > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 02:40:56AM -0400, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote: > > > > The problem is that you're basically saying "my mental model is the right > > one", which is not necessarily true for everyone (and not necessarily true > > generally). Taking your arguments a bit further, Python 2.6 and 2.7 are > > different languages too, since there are some backward incompatible > > additions to Python 2.7. > > > Even more directly, I am saying that your mental model is wrong. Now then, > I assumed that you would not find that palatable therefore I backed my > mental model up with links to the python-dev mailing list. (The three > threads from the PEP and the earlier one that I linked to explicitly in my > email). What are the links to upstream that you are basing your mental > model on? >
Since Python upstream really cares about these things, I started a discussion about this on their mailing list [1]. So far, it seems that people prefer my mental model, but this is judging from just 4 answers, 2 of which mentioned this. So let's wait and see. BTW, if Python 2 and Python 3 were different languages, then IMO it wouldn't make sense to point /usr/bin/python to Python 3, while upstream plans to actually give the recommendation to do so sometime in the future. > -Toshio > -- Regards, Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda. [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-July/127516.html -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
