In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jay Tee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >If backwards compatibility is not a consideration, then it would be a >miracle if there were no problems.
Backwards compatibility is a consideration AND there will be problems. That is, the goal of 3.0 is to lower the priority of backwards compatibility enough to make some incompatible changes, but not to reduce the priority of compatibility to zero. Just for example, "foo" will become a Unicode string. Note that I believe it will be many years, perhaps even a decade, before "python" on a Unix system starts up Python 3.0. Python 2.x will have at least two releases after 3.0 gets released, and I can't imagine that any OS will have "python" refer to 3.0 while 2.x is still under active development or even for a while after. I'd expect any OS to provide a python3. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "I disrespectfully agree." --SJM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
