The Evolution of Python 3 215
chromatic writes to tell us that O'Reilly has an interview with Guido van Rossum on the evolutionary process that gave us Python 3.0 and what is in store for the future. "I'd like to reiterate that at this point, it's a very personal choice to decide whether to use 3.0 or 2.6. You don't run the risk of being left behind by taking a conservative stance at this point. 2.6 will be just as well supported by the same group of core Python developers as 3.0. At the same time, we're also not sort of deemphasizing the importance and quality of 3.0. So if you are not held back by external requirements like dependencies on packages or third party software that hasn't been ported to 3.0 yet or working in an environment where everyone else is using another version. If you're learning Python for the first time, 3.0 is a great way to learn the language. There's a couple of things that trip over beginners have been removed."
Combine them.... (Score:5, Funny)
Evolution? (Score:3, Funny)
Shouldn't that be intelligent design? Otherwise we'd have way more python flavors.
Re:Roland Piquepaille: a case study in madness (Score:4, Funny)
I don't think will be a problem any more
Re:Combine them.... (Score:3, Funny)
Lemme guess... you're a student of the Sun Microsystems'-sponsored Bill Joy School of Version Numbering?
Trip over beginners? (Score:3, Funny)
There's a couple of things that trip over beginners have been removed.
Ah, yes, I remember python tripping over me. It's actually pretty impressive that a snake figured out how to trip, why take out that feature? It seems like you're knocking it back a notch in the evolution toward legs.
Re:Combine them.... (Score:5, Funny)
Either that or he's a Winamp developer.
This sentence fragment. (Score:3, Funny)
So if ( you are ( not ( held back by ( external requirements like ( dependencies on packages ) or ( third party software that hasn't been ported to 3.0 yet )))) or ( working in an environment where everyone else is using another version )).
The above sentence fragment is apparently a verbal quotation where Guido van Rossum forgot he used the word "if" when he was somewhere in the middle.
Re:Trip over beginners? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, Common Lisp stole my bike.
Re:Combine them.... (Score:2, Funny)
Same thing.
Re:In all seriousness (Score:5, Funny)
Yes.
Example program:
class MyClass(object): #{
def myfunction(self, arg1, arg2): #{
for i in range(arg1): #{
print i
# whoops, forgot to close that bracket!
#}
#}
Re:Evolution? (Score:3, Funny)
I hear it bit its tail and now just slowly slithers around in a circle...