On Apr 16, 11:15 am, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16 abr, 09:56, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In my opinion python's adherence to backwards compatibility > > has been a bit mythological anyway -- many new python versions > > have broken my old code for no good reason. This is an irritant > > when you have thousands of users out there who suddenly drop > > your code, blame you and python, and move on to use something else. > > Honestly, how hard would it have been to provide standard backwards > > support for the old regex module as a standard module which simply > > translated one regex string format to another, for example? > > Do you mean this? > > py> import reconvert > py> help(reconvert)...
Yes I mean it. Actually I was unaware of/forgot reconvert, but it doesn't matter because it doesn't solve the problem of code I wrote that has long ago escaped into the wild no longer working. There are other examples too, having to do with things as simple as a name change in a standard module that broke old code of mine for what I regard as silly cosmetic reasons. I hope you are right about py3k conversions being pain free and routine. I'm suspicious about it however. -- Aaron Watters === http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=cause+pain -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
