On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Christian Tismer <tis...@stackless.com> wrote: > I think, for the small importance of the print statement in code, it > would have made the transition easier, if python 3 was as flexible > as python 2.7, with a symmetric > > "from __past__ import print_statement" construct. >
For how long? Will Python require, in perpetuity, the code to support this? Must the print statement be enhanced when the print function is? What about bug fixes? How much dev time is required to enable backward compatibility past a boundary across which backward compatibility was not promised? And if there's a limit to the duration of this __past__ directive, when should it be and what should happen after that point? Much easier to simply say no. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
