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People don't seem to be considering the possibility that a stagnant python 2.7 may actually be a reason to like that version of the language. I must admit it i
by mathgenius 10y ago
People don't seem to be considering the possibility that a stagnant python 2.7 may actually be a reason to like that version of the language. I must admit it is nice to not have those oh-so-keen python developers messing with my favorite language.
However, I recently had a gig working in py3. Apart from screwing up every single print statement for a long time, it was entirely drama-free, and actually pretty great. There really is a difference between living and dead languages I think. 2.7 is the latin of python.
- ant6n 10y agowhy can't print be both a function and a statement...
- kevin_thibedeau 10y agoThe print statement has a lot of special magic like '>>' and trailing commas that uglifies the parser.
- ant6n 10y agoI don't get this. There's a tiny fraction of Python users who care about the complexity of the language parser. But many hate the print-tax.
- int_19h 10y agoOh, people are considering that possibility very much. But the notion of Python 2.8, with new features backported from 3.x, is kinda the opposite of that approach, and is very much "developers messing with my favorite language".