A modest PEP0238 suggestion

[Guido van Rossum]

Stephen Horne <steve at lurking.demon.co.uk> writes:

> More important is all the software that is somehow in-the-field - a
> VERY serious problem.

You can always use the solution that works so well in many other
situations: don't upgrade Python, or at least keep a copy of Python
1.5.2 or 2.1 around, and use that for your unconverted code.  This is
a very common solution.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)