Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
* James Harris:
You get way too deep into Python in places (for a beginner's course in
programming). For example, "from now on I’ll always use from
__future__ in any program that uses print."
Sorry, but I think that hiding such concerns is a real disservice.
The disservice is in teaching folks to use non-standard elements, which
is (sort-of) what __future__ is. Changes to the language are
experimented with in __future__ and can change from one release to the
next. If memory serves, the with statement is an example of having
different behavior when it was moved out of __future__ and made a
standard part of the language.
~Ethan~
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