IMO: breaking backward compatibility is a big deal, and should only be done when it is seriously needed.
Also, IMO, most of, if not all, of the changes being made in 3.0 are debatable, at best. I can not think of anything that is being changed that was really a "show stopper" anyway. At best, I am a casual python user, so it's likely that I am missing something. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
