That strikes me a bit "self"-ish, Owen.

;-}

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I'm a bit disappointed in their not getting rid of some of the real ugly
> things in python.  Especially not using lexical scoping, and requiring
> "self" all over the place in variable references.  Yes, I want the "self"
> object reference, but not for instance and class variables.
>
>    -- Owen
>
>
>
> On Dec 11, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Robert Holmes wrote:
>
>  I thought about it but this Python release is not backwards-compatible and
>> I've got a LOT of v2.5 code. And the migration process (see the bottom of
>> http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html) is not exactly simple...
>>
>> R
>>
>> P.S. Plus I don't want to recompile numpy and pylab and scipy and...
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> Just curious: how many of us have tried python 3.0?
>>  http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/
>> .. I ask because a book I'm looking at for teaching python to youngsters
>> jumps right into 3.0:
>>  http://www.briggs.net.nz/log/writing/snake-wrangling-for-kids/
>>
>>   -- Owen
>>
>
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