[Python-3000] [Python-ideas] Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

[Greg Ewing]

Mike Meyer wrote:

> And - at least in my experience - chances are good that nothing but
> the simplest scripts will work on multiple versions anyway, because
> they don't have the same set of third party - or possibly even builtin
> - modules installed, unless someone took care to make sure that
> exactly that happened, and even then the scripts generally only moved
> one direction.

But at least you *can* set things up and write scripts
so that the same code works across versions. It's
going to be impossible, or at least very difficult, to
write code that works unchanged in both 2.x and 3.x.

--
Greg