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People who respect the law and love sausage should never watch either of them being made ;-) The referenced thread isn't Python's finest hour. A: "Hey, this f
by raymondh 4y ago
People who respect the law and love sausage should never watch either of them being made ;-)
The referenced thread isn't Python's finest hour. A: "Hey, this feature is slightly inconvenient to implement in AST, let's kill it." B: "Many users haven't heard of this, so let's kill it." C: "I find it useful and there's not real advantage in killing it". A&B: "Okay, it's gone".
Really, you're better-off just enjoying a language that is mostly nice and mostly well-designed. Don't read the development threads. It will spoil the illusion.
- sitkack 4y agoIf only it had been used in Django. Similar thing about adding animated png support in Firefox, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257197 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257197 Petabytes of bandwidth wasted, and probably gigawatts of electricity. This like google internal behavior leaking out in the real world. Actively user hostile or at least indifferent.