Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:39 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >>> I write both Py2 and Py3 code, but I keep the two worlds hermetically >>> separated from each other. >> >> [...] >> >> You don't need to be afraid of the gap. > > No problem. When I write Py3, I write Py3. When I write Py2, I write > Py2. When I write bash, I write bash. When I write C, I write C.
Do you get confused by the difference between talking to Americans and talking to Britons? The differences between American and British English is a better analogy for the differences between Python 2 and 3 than the differences between C and bash. Especially if you target 2.7 and 3.3+, it is almost trivially easy to write multi-dialect Python 2 and 3 code in the same code base. The trickiest part is not a language change at all, but remembering that the names of some standard library modules have changed. Nobody here is suggesting that there are no differences between Python 2 and 3, but suggesting that those differences are of the same order of magnitude as those between bash and C is ridiculous. The common subset of the Python language is far greater than the differences between the versions. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
