Why Python3

[geremy condra]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:46 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> Stephen Hansen wrote:
>>
>> On 6/27/10 6:09 PM, MRAB wrote:
>>>
>>> Terry Reedy wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Another would have been to add but never remove anthing, with the
>>>> consequence that Python would become increasingly difficult to learn
>>>> and the interpreter increasingly difficult to maintain with
>>>> volunteers. I think 2.7 is far enough in that direction.
>>>>
>>> [snip]
>>> It's clear that Guido's time machine is limited in how far it can travel
>>> in time, because if it wasn't then Python 1 would've been more like
>>> Python 3 and the changes would not have been necessary! :-)
>>
>> I'm pretty sure he wrote the Time Machine in Python 1.4, or maybe 1.3?
>> Either way, its well established that a time machine can't go back in time
>> any farther then the moment its created.
>>
>> I don't at all remember why, don't even vaguely understand the physics
>> behind it, but Morgan Freeman said it on TV, so its true.
>>
> That's if the time machines uses a wormhole:
>
>>>> import wormhole
>
> Unfortunately it's not part of the standard library. :-(

Batteries- but not flux capacitors- included.

Geremy Condra