On Mon, Oct 19, 2020, at 22:41, James T Moon wrote:
tl;dr *boo* *hiss*
I can only imagine the new Python programmer's look of confusion, turning to disgust, turning to giving up.
Ten years from now, hopefully, Python 2 will be a distant memory, and Python 3.8 will be, at the very least, long out of support and unlikely to be the system new users are learning Python on, and none of the dialogue you've just written will have to take place at all. Does anyone else remember when xkcd first mentioned python? The main selling point it had for it [and the one that was actually literally true, vs 'import antigravity' which was a semi-satirical bit about the batteries-included philosophy] was 'Hello world is just print "Hello, world!"' Wouldn't it be nice if that were true again, even if the details of how it works [and other things like how you print to other files] aren't quite the same as they used to be?