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Yeah, I think the "no new features in 2.7.1+" has been making Python less exciting to use for the past few years, as libraries have slowly started to support Py
by dochtman 14y ago
Yeah, I think the "no new features in 2.7.1+" has been making Python less exciting to use for the past few years, as libraries have slowly started to support Python 3. I think the future might feel less bleak once Python 3 becomes a better option in deployment.
As for the original article, I don't mind if Python's future isn't everywhere, but I find it sad that modern languages like Go and Rust don't copy more of Python's features (and my top contender for this is actually significant whitespace, because I find it greatly helps readability).
- rbanffy 14y ago> "no new features in 2.7" has been making Python less exciting Erm... Not exactly. http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.7.html http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.7.html "To help with porting to Python 3, several new features from the Python 3.x series have been included in 2.7"
- dochtman 14y agoErr, yeah. I mean in 2.7, as in, 2.7.1+. I've updated my post to make that more clear.
- dalke 14y agoHasn't that generally been the case? That is, Python 2.6.1 "is the first bugfix release of Python 2.6. Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added." So there's nothing new about 2.7.1 being only a bugfix release.
- nilsbunger 14y agoThere will be no python 2.8. Ref: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0404/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0404/
- dalke 14y agoHmm. I think I misread things. I thought the author was saying that 2.7.x is a problem because 2.7.x are bug fixes-only. I now see I could have read that as there will be no features added, starting with 2.7.