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Python 3.6 Released (python.org)
On Friday, more than a year after Python 3.5, core developers Elvis Pranskevichus and Yury Selivanov announced the release of version 3.6. An anonymous reader writes:
InfoWorld describes the changes as async in more places, speed and memory usage improvements, and pluggable support for JITs, tracers, and debuggers. "Python 3.6 also provides support for DTrace and SystemTap, brings a secrets module to the standard library [to generate authentication tokens], introduces new string and number formats, and adds type annotations for variables. It also gives us easier methods to customize the creation of subclasses."
You can read Slashdot's interview with Python creator Guido van Rossum from 2013. I also remember an interview this July where Perl creator Larry Wall called Python "a pretty okay first language, with a tendency towards style enforcement, monoculture, and group-think...more interested in giving you one adequate way to do something than it is in giving you a workshop that you, the programmer, get to choose the best tool from." Anyone want to share their thoughts today about the future of Python?
You can read Slashdot's interview with Python creator Guido van Rossum from 2013. I also remember an interview this July where Perl creator Larry Wall called Python "a pretty okay first language, with a tendency towards style enforcement, monoculture, and group-think...more interested in giving you one adequate way to do something than it is in giving you a workshop that you, the programmer, get to choose the best tool from." Anyone want to share their thoughts today about the future of Python?
The language changed for virtually no reason/benefit in Python 3 and they broke backward compatibility. Worst of all, no automated means of reliably porting 2.7 code to 3 was provided, and even today, there is no reliable means.
Developers stuck with 2.7 to maintain compatibility and then continued further development in 2.7. Thus creating an even larger body of work that doesn't run under Python 3.
It was a massively stupid decision. But, I expect nothing less from those that build a language whose code can completely change functionality by simply misplacing an invisible character(space). Said character itself often makes up 20% of the frickin code!
Using tabs for indentation is a mental disease. Also, PEP 8. Tabs are not Pythonic and should not be used. You're free to torture your programming language however you please, but if you expect others to respect your work, you are advised to adhere to the rules.
Have you actually read PEP 8 or are you just throwing it out there?The intro to that PEP goes to great lengths to explain that it is the preferredstyle guide for the Python Standard Library, thatother coding standards are OK, and that you should always adhere to the coding standards any given project uses. It is not some sort of dictatorial manifesto that ALL PYTHON SHOULD BE 4 SPACES.