[Python-Dev] [PEPs] Rebooting PEP 394 (aka Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream)

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/11/2011 10:36 AM, Éric Araujo wrote:

> It would be interesting to have feedback from people who lived the
> transition to Python 2.

There was no comparable transition. Python 2.0 was basically 1.6 renamed 
for a different distributor. I regard Python 2.2, which introduced 
new-style, as the beginning of Python 2 as something significantly 
different from Python 1. I suppose one could also point to the earlier 
intro of unicode. The new iterator protocol was also a major change. In 
any case, back compatibility was kept in all three respects (and others) 
until Python 3.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy