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Sure to please ~17% of the people, PEP 638 -- Syntactic Macros => https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0638/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0638/ (It's onl
by smitty1e 5y ago
Sure to please ~17% of the people, PEP 638 -- Syntactic Macros => https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0638/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0638/
(It's only Standards Track at the moment)
- tyingq 5y ago>Created: 24-Sep-2020 I imagine it would have been more popular than 17% if it were available when v2 -> v3 pain was at the high point.
- smitty1e 5y agoDisagree. The breaking changes then were a tough pill. More would not have been better.
- tyingq 5y agoI wasn't proposing adding yet another change at the time. I'm saying if the capability were already in place, dealing with breaking changes would have been easier. The whole reason this thought popped in my head is that I still have people asking today: "Tried to run your script, and I got a syntax error...is it broken?". When the issue is that the default python on their box is 2.x.
- smitty1e 5y agoExcellent point.