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Incompatibility within Python 2.x

Incompatibility within Python 2.x

Posted Dec 18, 2008 13:28 UTC (Thu) by pboddie (guest, #50784)
In reply to: Incompatibility within Python 2.x by rfunk
Parent article: Python 3 is out - now what?

This sort of thing is one of the reasons I decided to stay away from Python. It seemed like every minor release had major backward compatibility problems.

More familiarity may have demonstrated to you that major problems have actually been quite rare. I'm fairly unimpressed with Python 3, and I'm disappointed that changing the language was done in preference to a lot of other things which seem more important (at least to me), but until now Python has had a relatively good compatibility record.


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