On Thu, 2 Feb 2023 09:31:46 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:
> Yeah ok But the ancestors of penguins didn't wake up one morning, flap > their wings and fall out the tree, it happened gradually. Python2 syntax > could have been retained for X versions of 3 just as C++ keeps old stuff > until its eventually deprecated them removed. Isn't that prolonging the agony? I had some 2.7 scripts I had to move to 3. It wasn't that painful and I learned the new syntax. Being lazy if they still worked I would have kept using 2.7 syntax until someday it really went away. MS did it big time with VB .NET. I'm sure there still are people maintaining and extending old-style VB until it ceases to work altogether. Then they'll be faced with the same learning curve most people suffered through 20 years ago. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
