On 11/8/10 8:13 PM, Seebs wrote:
On 2010-11-09, Ben Finney<ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
Seebs<usenet-nos...@seebs.net> writes:
I think we're stuck with backwards compatibility at least as far as
2.4.
Then you don't yet have the ???any??? and ???all??? built-in functions, or the
tuple-of-prefixes feature of ???str.startswith??? either. Bummer.
Eww.
At which point, the Pythonic thing to do is to convince your
organisation to use a version of Python that's at least officially
supported by the PSF :-)
Unfortunately, we're selling something to people who will explode if
we tell them to upgrade their RHEL4 systems, so we have to work on those.
(There is some tiny hope that we'll be able to move the baseline to RHEL5
within another two years.)
When we deal with such people, we also sell them a recent Python interpreter.
:-)
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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