On Thursday 19 May 2016 13:31, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 6:26:26 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Code Like A Pythonista was written in the Python 2 era >> <http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html> >> but is still excellent advice today. > > > If <link> is python-2 and still the best excellent advice today > doesn't it go somewhat counter to pyhthon-2 is a dead-end ?? :-) Ben didn't say that it is the *best* excellent advice. But even if he did, your conclusion is invalid. I still have books written for Python 1.4 and 1.5 that I turn to when I can't remember % targets and regular expression codes, and my copy of the Python Cookbook is still full of excellent code even though it is written for Python 2. > Need to point this out since the opposite case to Chris' > "switch to 3 or else suffer in hell..." needs to be articulated: > > Python-3 is nice but 2 is ok. The diffs are not such a big deal Python 2 is still an excellent language. It's just not going forward -- no new features will be added to it. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
