"Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Anyway, you're confusing "instability" (I hate that word, > it has connotations of unreliability, which aren't intended) > with "enhancement". The API gets changed, yes, but by > adding new things, almost never by removing the old stuff > or changing how it works. I'm not confusing it, I'm disagreeing. Take xreadlines, for example. Added in 2.1, deprecated in 2.3, removed in 2.4 Perhaps I lead a sheltered life but that's almost infinitely worse than any other language I have used. It's not a big issue though: I'm just surprised that what I would regard as a weakness in Python, others consider a strength. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
