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

[Jesse Noller]

On Jun 21, 2008, at 7:56 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

I would tend to disagree that the new print function is less "pretty"  
- I've actually found it to be more consistent and 'pretty' within the  
language. But YMMV.

>
> 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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