[Python-Dev] Backwards Incompatibility

Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Wed, 21 Feb 2001 23:47:22 +0100


On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:41:41PM -0500, Andrew Kuchling wrote:

> Compatibility... ay, there's the rub!

If you include 'ways of thinking' in 'compatibility', I'll agree. Many
people are used to being able to use exec/from-foo-import-*, and consider it
part of Python's wonderful flexibility and straightforwardness (I know I do,
and all my python-proficient and python-learning colleagues do.)

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