On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:22:23 -0800, walterbyrd wrote: > IMO: breaking backward compatibility is a big deal, and should only be > done when it is seriously needed. > > Also, IMO, most of, if not all, of the changes being made in 3.0 are > debatable, at best. I can not think of anything that is being changed > that was really a "show stopper" anyway. > > At best, I am a casual python user, so it's likely that I am missing > something.
To answer your subject line: "Is 3.0 worth breaking backward compatibility?" That depends on what you are doing with Python. Python 3 is the future of Python. "Show stopper" or not, all the new (mis)features in Python 3 are here to stay, and all the (mis)features in Python 2 are on the way out. You can start moving to Python 3 now, or you can do it later, but *eventually* you will have to move. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
