Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/27/10 6:09 PM, MRAB wrote:
Terry Reedy wrote:
Another would have been to add but never remove anthing, with the
consequence that Python would become increasingly difficult to learn
and the interpreter increasingly difficult to maintain with
volunteers. I think 2.7 is far enough in that direction.
[snip]
It's clear that Guido's time machine is limited in how far it can travel
in time, because if it wasn't then Python 1 would've been more like
Python 3 and the changes would not have been necessary! :-)
I'm pretty sure he wrote the Time Machine in Python 1.4, or maybe 1.3?
Either way, its well established that a time machine can't go back in
time any farther then the moment its created.
I don't at all remember why, don't even vaguely understand the physics
behind it, but Morgan Freeman said it on TV, so its true.
That's if the time machines uses a wormhole:
>>> import wormhole
Unfortunately it's not part of the standard library. :-(
So he couldn't go back and fix 1.0, physics won't allow him. So we're
stuck with the Py3k break. :)
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