Łukasz Langa wrote: > 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 :-) > And thanks to Fredrik there's a chance you'll be able to use PIL there.
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