Pep 3105: the end of print?

[Tobias Brox]

[Edward K Ream]
> Not at all.  Backwards compatibility means that one can still run old code 
> provided  the code eschews new features.  Python releases have generally 
> been backwards compatible with previous releases, with a few minor 
> exceptions.  For example, my app runs fine on Python 2.2.2 through Python 
> 2.5, and little work was required to make this happen.

2.2 -> 2.5 is a minor step, the 2.2-code should in general work out on
2.5 without problems.

2.6 -> 3.0 will be a major step, and code written for 2.6 or earlier
will in general not run on python 3.0.  Hopefully this issue can be
partially solved by automatic code converting.  

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