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The article presents a blatant strawman argument against Python 3's language by using advanced language features to claim it's no longer simple nor suitable for
by jasonpeacock 10y ago
The article presents a blatant strawman argument against Python 3's language by using advanced language features to claim it's no longer simple nor suitable for beginners.
Just don't use the advanced features if you don't need them, the core language is the same as Python 2 which the author lauds as being wonderful.
- coleifer 10y agoSee my response to your "blatant" strawman (ignore the language changes): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13671609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13671609
- dragonwriter 10y agoIncluding, incidentally, in the (invalid by its own description) example, function decorators and the format method on strings, which were both present in Python 2.