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CCP4bb navigationCCP4bb <-- 2008 <-- February 2008 <-- 01 February 2008Subject: Python 3.0 breakage From: "David J {- dot -} Schuller" djs63 {- at -} CORNELL {- dot -} EDU Date: 2008-02-01 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39292561,00.htm "Developers prepare for Python breakage Angus Kidman ZDNet Australia Published: 01 Feb 2008 10:43 GMT The launch of version 3.0 of Python, expected within the next year, will see major changes to some fundamental elements of the programming language, release manager Anthony Baxter explained in a keynote speech at linux.conf.au in Melbourne. Python is used extensively by Google for many of its products, including the popular YouTube video-sharing site. "3.0 is also known as the release where we break all your code but we're doing it for a good reason," Baxter said. "Python is 16 years old. Like all 16-year-olds, it's got some really annoying features." "Pretty much every program will need changes," Baxter said, but he stressed that the shift would be some time in coming..." -- ======================================================================= With the single exception of Cornell, there is not a college in the United States where truth has ever been a welcome guest - R.G. Ingersoll ======================================================================= David J. Schuller modern man in a post-modern world MacCHESS, Cornell University schuller@cornell.edu CCP4bb navigationCCP4bb <-- 2008 <-- February 2008 <-- 01 February 2008 |
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