I strongly dislike Python 3

geremy condra debatem1 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 28 16:30:59 EDT 2010


On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Edward A. Falk <falk at green.rahul.net> wrote:
> In article <mailman.2270.1277736664.32709.python-list at python.org>,
> Stephen Hansen  <me+list/python at ixokai.io> wrote:
>>
>>No one said otherwise, or that print was useless and never used in such
>>contexts.
>
> I was responding to the question "Also, do you use print *that*
> much? Really?"  The implication being that in the majority of useful
> python programs, you don't really need to use print.
>
> My answer is yes, I use print in 100% of the scripts I write, including
> the large useful ones.
>
> For this reason alone, python 3 is incompatible with python 2 (which
> has already been acknowledged.)
>
> Until such time as 100% of the systems I might ever want to run my progams
> on have python 3 installed, I cannot port my programs over from python 2.

Uhmm, just add the parenthesis to your old scripts. You can
do that without breaking on 2.x.

Geremy Condra



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