A counter-proposal to __future__ in PEP 236

Michael Hudson mwh21 at cam.ac.uk
Sun Mar 4 05:49:09 EST 2001


Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:38:04AM -0600, Lloyd Sommerer wrote:
> 
> > I should also point out that the "from  __future__ import..." is also
> > confusing to a newbie, but others have said that already.
> 
> And that's exactly as it should be: you shouldn't use the experimental
> feature(s) if you're a newbie :)

Bzzt.  If your new to Python, you should always use nested scopes, so
you don't have to unlearn the old behaviour when the new behaviour
becomes the default in 2.2.

Cheers,
M,

-- 
  C++ is a siren song.  It *looks* like a HLL in which you ought to
  be able to write an application, but it really isn't.
                                       -- Alain Picard, comp.lang.lisp



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