On Jun 26, 9:06 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au> wrote: > .... > I didn't notice this level of angst when Python made equally significant > changes going from 1.5 to 2.0... admittedly Python 1.5 code would work > unchanged in 2.0, but the 2.x series introduced MUCH bigger additions to > Python than anything 3.0 and 3.1 have added, and anyone taking advantage > of those changes is implicitly writing code which is not backwards
As a historical note, Python was a lot less pervasive then. Nevertheless there were some subtle but significant breakages in 1-->2 which caused a lot of people to throw up their hands and give up. The abandonment of regex comes to mind, and there were others. I personally earned income a couple years ago as a contractor supporting Python 1.x applications which were put into cryogenic preservation when the developers decided to abandon Python in favor of a less chaotic platform, like Java or C# or even (got help us) Perl. I apologize if I pontificate. -- Aaron Watters -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
