[Visualpython-users] "Python 3.0 To Be Backwards Incompatible"

[Rob S. <sa...@ph...>]

Slashdot reports "Python 3.0 To Be Backwards Incompatible"
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/02/01/1624247.shtml

The linked article
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/69326,breaking-the-python-code.aspx
writes
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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.
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"We are going to break pretty much all the code. Pretty much every program
will need changes," said Anthony Baxter, release manager for Python and a
senior software engineer at Google Australia. Any extension modules,
including proprietary vendor ones, will also need to be rewritten.  .
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Python 3.0 will be the first version to break backwards compatibility.... .
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The Python development community was committed to providing a smooth
upgrade path and will build a number of forwards-compatible new features
into the next release of the current version of the language, version 2.6.
This release is expected to come out around the same time as the release
of 3.0, said Baxter.
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"2.x is not going away. I'm happy to do a 2.7 if it's needed. We're not
expecting everyone to rewrite all their code the day after 3.0 comes out,
that would be very foolish," Baxter said.
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