[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Warning for 2.6 and greater

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Thu Jan 11 20:32:41 CET 2007


James Y Knight schrieb:

> If Python 3.0 was simply a release which removed deprecated features,  
> there would clearly be no issue. I would update my code in advance of  
> the 3.0 release to not use any of those features being removed, and  
> I'm all set. But that's not what I'm hearing. Python 3 is both adding  
> new ways to do things, and removing the older way, in the same  
> version, with no overlap. This makes me very anxious.

It has always been planned that in those cases that allow it, the new way to do
it will be introduced in a 2.x release too, and the old way removed only in 3.x.

Georg



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