[Python-3000] Question to _users_ -- about over all perceptions/feelings

[Nick Coghlan]

Linda W. wrote:
> But *some* of thei things that may have attracted people to python or 
> perl in the first place may be items replaced.  Prints are no longer 
> builtin statements, but functions in standard function format.  Tends to 
> 'unbeautify' the code a bit.  A few other  regularizing features have a 
> similar effect, perhaps adding extra line-noise syntax where none was 
> needed before...

Care to give any examples of 'unbeautifying' other than the print 
statement -> print function conversion?

As to what I think will happen with adoption of Python 3... I think 2.x 
and 3.x will coexist quite happily for a number of years (at least until 
a 2.7 release, possibly even a 2.8).

Cheers,
Nick.

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