walterbyrd: > I can not think of anything that is being changed that was really a "show > stopper" anyway.<
I agree, but Python and its culture has a characteristic that not many other languages share: it tries to be a tidy language, to have one obvious way to do most things, it values readability and sometimes even elegance. So even if those problems aren't "showstoppers" for most languages, for the Python culture they are bad enough to need a fix. The amount of warts in the language that a Python programmer is used to tolerate in the the language is probably 1/20 of the warts a C++ programmer digests with no problem every day. Different languages, different cultures, and sometimes even different psychology & cognitive profile of the programmer. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
