The Evolution of Python 3

chromatic writes to tell us that O'Reilly has an interview with Guido van Rossum on the evolutionary process that gave us Python 3.0 and what is in store for the future. "I'd like to reiterate that at this point, it's a very personal choice to decide whether to use 3.0 or 2.6. You don't run the risk of being left behind by taking a conservative stance at this point. 2.6 will be just as well supported by the same group of core Python developers as 3.0. At the same time, we're also not sort of deemphasizing the importance and quality of 3.0. So if you are not held back by external requirements like dependencies on packages or third party software that hasn't been ported to 3.0 yet or working in an environment where everyone else is using another version. If you're learning Python for the first time, 3.0 is a great way to learn the language. There's a couple of things that trip over beginners have been removed."

Comments

Combine them....

[thetoadwarrior]

and make everyone happy with Python 5.6

Re:Combine them....

[morgan_greywolf]

Lemme guess... you're a student of the Sun Microsystems'-sponsored Bill Joy School of Version Numbering?

Re:Combine them....

[Radish03]

Either that or he's a Winamp developer.

Re:Combine them....

[morgan_greywolf]

Same thing.

Evolution?

[El_Muerte_TDS]

Shouldn't that be intelligent design? Otherwise we'd have way more python flavors.

Re:Evolution?

[Shadow Wrought]

Don't even ask about poor version 3.14159...

I hear it bit its tail and now just slowly slithers around in a circle...

Re:Roland Piquepaille: a case study in madness

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't think will be a problem any more

Trip over beginners?

[AaxelB]

There's a couple of things that trip over beginners have been removed.

Ah, yes, I remember python tripping over me. It's actually pretty impressive that a snake figured out how to trip, why take out that feature? It seems like you're knocking it back a notch in the evolution toward legs.

Re:Trip over beginners?

[lewp]

Well, Common Lisp stole my bike.

This sentence fragment.

[HTH NE1]

So if ( you are ( not ( held back by ( external requirements like ( dependencies on packages ) or ( third party software that hasn't been ported to 3.0 yet )))) or ( working in an environment where everyone else is using another version )).

The above sentence fragment is apparently a verbal quotation where Guido van Rossum forgot he used the word "if" when he was somewhere in the middle.

Re:In all seriousness

[ultrabot]

Yes.

Example program:

class MyClass(object): #{
        def myfunction(self, arg1, arg2): #{
                for i in range(arg1): #{
                        print i
                # whoops, forgot to close that bracket!
        #}
#}