On Sunday 18 September 2005 19:55, Bo Peng wrote: > > For me that is a burden, the absence of the extended operators in > > python (+=, -=, ... op=) makes the code dull, the fact that string were > > made a first class type only in python 2.0 does not help either. > > What? += and string class is not in 1.5.2?
Yep, that is right. > I use it a lot in configure.py. I know that is why I have sparked the discussion here. I find your work extremely interesting, and I think that it is a good argument to change the present requirements. > > If you are proposing to drop this requirement you have my full support. > > :-) Even without taking with George I can assure you his support. ;-) > > I guess we would better support python >= 2.0. I would go for 2.2, for several reasons, that I can discuss later. That is a reasonable dependence. Just to put things into perspective Red Hat Linux 8.0 (I mixed the dot in the other message :-) already ships with python 2.2, and it was released in October of 2002. If I am not mistaken even the previous stable version of Debian supports it. ;-) > Bo -- José Abílio
