It is always loo late (Was: Relative imports in Py3k)
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:22 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> wrote:
I don't see why such awkward way should be necessary in Python 3k, which breaks backwards compatibility. Why it can't "just work" for my user story?
Because you weren't around advocating and implementing a change when Python 3 was developed?
I will never have the time to advocate the changes for products I don't use (do you?), and I still don't use Python 3 - I am just looking forward to it. Is there a public list of annoyances for Python 3 that I can check to see if my change is already scheduled for Python 4 and vote for it?
It's too late now to arbitrarily break backward compatibility, so you'll have to advocate and develop any change inside the parameters of Python's normal backward compatibility policy.
I use Python a lot and I still can't change anything I dislike, because it is always too late.
In other words, you should move this discussion to python-ideas.
It is more about the development process than Python itself. Should I move to ideas? It is yet another ML I am not subscribed. -- anatoly t.
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:55:03 +0300 anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a public list of annoyances for Python 3 that I can check to see if my change is already scheduled for Python 4 and vote for it?
No, there isn't. If you want to know what Python 3 is about, you can : - read the docs - read the changelogs - download it and try it (especially alpha/beta versions) - read python-dev and python-checkins - read the source code - follow the bug tracker If you aren't willing to do anything of that, then I don't think your complaints belong here. comp.lang.python (also named python-list, or gmane.comp.python.general) is a more appropriate venue for your messages.
I use Python a lot and I still can't change anything I dislike, because it is always too late.
And that's a good thing, because Python is not your toy project and development of Python is not about satisfying your personal tastes. Antoine.
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