PEP Parade

[Roy Smith]

"Tim Peters" <tim at zope.com> wrote:
> Note that Guido wants to keep 2.3 free of new core language features.  You
> can deduce that from reading the essay, or-- like me --you can just believe
> it because it's true <wink>.  There's a huge backlog of good ideas for
> improving the internals and libraries, and I wouldn't be surprised to see
> the focus remain there for 2.4 too.

Not touching the core language is a Good Thing.    It's really tough to 
convince people that python is a viable tool when it's a moving target.  

It's been somewhat of an uphill battle to get my development group to 
accept the fact that I write tools for the whole group's use in python.  
Having the core language change from version to version just makes it 
worse, as we discover imcompatabilities between whatever version I'm using 
to develop on and whateve they're running on their boxes.  Telling people, 
"Oh, you need to upgrade to version X" gets old pretty fast.  As the saying 
goes, "if you're explaining, you've already lost."