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Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>"Anthony Irwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>| #5 someone said that they used to use python but stopped because the
>| language changed or made stuff depreciated (I can fully remember
>| which) and old code stopped working. Is code written today likely to
>| still work in 5+ years or do they depreciate stuff and you have to
>update?
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>Most versions of Python are still available. You are free to use and
>distribute your copies indefinitely. Several older versions are still in
>use.
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>Recent releases have added features but removed very little except bugs.
>Unfortunately, bug removal sometimes breaks code. And feature additions
>occasionally introduce bugs or otherwise break code, but that is why there
>are alpha, beta, and candidate releases before a final release.
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>Python3 will remove many things at once. A conversion tool is being
>written. And there is no expectation that production code should be
>immediately converted, if ever.
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I'll answer even more aggressively: Python's record of
backward compatibility is *better* than Java's.
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