Steve Holden: > I think you will find that most of Fredrik Lundh's stuff will work on > 1.5.2. He sets a fine example to us all. >
1.5.2? Come on, it's 7 years old. Back then PHP was still at 3.0, Java was at 1.2 (and compiling Hello World took over 5 minutes), Google was nothing more than a search engine (still Beta at the time!). What do we have all these cool new language features for if it's considered bad behaviour to actually use them? OK, I see the point in being compatible with Python 2.1 (well, maybe 2.2 with new-style classes and __descriptors__), just like it's still useful to be Java 1.4 compatible and PHP 4 compatible. But Python 1.5.2? From the official site: "*Do yourself a favor* and get a more recent version!" ;-) It doesn't even have string methods. Today Python 1.5.2 is being implemented on one-chip GSM modules ( http://www.telit.co.it/product.asp?productId=96 ). And yes, it actually works quite well there :-) Regards, Łukasz Langa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
