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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Python 3

I would be much more sympathetic to the whole Python 3 endeavour if they had made a serious effort to keep the major 2.x releases mutually compatible.

2 comments:

Senthil Kumaran said...

Did not quite get it. What is meant by major 2.x releases compatible

jam said...

Python 2.7 breaks a fair bit of code vs 2.6. At least for a significant code base. And 2.6 did the same vs 2.5 before that.

In experience, it is possible to write code that can run on 2.4-2.6(7) at the same time. But it almost never works that way from the start.

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