Python 3.0 To Be Backwards Incompatible

Stony Stevenson writes "Organizations using Python will be affected in a major way by changes in store for the language over the course of the next twelve months, Linux.conf.au attendees were told this morning. The Python development community is working towards a new, backwards-incompatible version of the language, version 3.0, which is slated for release in early 2009. Anthony Baxter, the release manager for Python and a senior software engineer at Google Australia, said "We are going to break pretty much all the code. Pretty much every program will need changes." Baxter also added another tidbit for attendees, saying that Python accounts for around 15 percent of Google's code base."

Comments

It's a race

[Intron]

Will the new Perl or the new Python be the first to shoot itself in the foot with incompatibility?

I don't see the problem

[Urger]

While it would be nice if it were otherwise, sometimes you need to break with the past to develop solutions to problems. It's an ugly, but very real truth. Thats not to say that my I will be rewriting my code to 3.0 immediately, but sometime in the next year or two I probably will.

Whiners

[MikeDataLink]

We whine when companies break compatability, yet we whine just as loud about bloated software when companies leave in compatibility.

Tell, me exactly what would satisfy you? How about we just take your computer away.

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