"Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Python is exceptionally backwards compatible, so generally > code from an older version will run unchanged on newer > Pythons. I'm just curious: why exceptionally? I like Python for a lot of reasons but I wouldn't put API stability high on the list. Not compared with a traditional language like C or Fortran, anyway. Which languages go around breaking backwards conmpatibility in a cavalier way? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list