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please don't use Python-3

please don't use Python-3

Posted Dec 7, 2008 1:04 UTC (Sun) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767)
In reply to: please don't use Python-3 by njs
Parent article: Python 3.0 released

Yes, I did read some hostility in it. But I wasn't sure. I went back and reviewed your posts in the Perl thread and decided you seemed pretty even-handed.

You are correct about 2.1/2.2. I was correctly remembering what I had read in the Wikipedia article on Python:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)

which says, referring to 2.0:

"The release included a change to the language specification to support nested scopes, like other statically scoped languages.[13] (The feature was turned off by default, and not required, until Python 2.2.)"

But a review of the original "What's new in Python 2.0" and "What's new in Python 2.1" documents shows that to be inaccurate.


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