Hi All-- Aahz wrote: > Given the tension of the various > requirements, I think that Python has broken "only one way" as little as > possible, with the full intention of getting closer to its ideal when the > time comes to break backward compatibility. >
I wrote my mayalib package under 1.3.0. It still runs perfectly well. I will only have to rewrite parts of it when the string module goes away. Everything else works, and will continue to work for the forseeable future. That's actually less change than happened with C over the same time period. But there, the language didn't change, just the environment around it--includes, libs, where things lived, etc. Metta, Ivan ---------------------------------------------- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.andi-holmes.com/ http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
