On 31/01/23 10:24 pm, mutt...@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
All languages have their ugly corners due to initial design mistakes and/or constraints. Eg: java with the special behaviour of its string class, C++ with "=0" pure virtual declaration. But they don't dump them and make all old code suddenly cease to execute.
No, but it was decided that Python 3 would have to be backwards incompatible, mainly to sort out the Unicode mess. Given that, the opportunity was taken to clean up some other mistakes as well. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
