On Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 9:26:39 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > 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.
And you have the knowledge and experience to know that when you refer to a python 2 (or 1) reference and apply it in 3 and there are minor glitches, you know where to go for clarifications. Maybe the OP also knows... maybe not... No case against python3, just that the pro-3 rhetoric need not be so shrill -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
