On 07/09/12 19:01, dnca...@gmail.com wrote: > The set of questions I'm not sure I understand is the 'What > version did ... appear?' questions. This, to me, doesn't seem to > indicate any programming experience or expertise. A question > asking 'Do you understand different versions?' and 'How would you > find out whether a particular version can do a particular thing?' > (i.e. which version can you use on GAE?) would seem to give good > information.
The reason *I* ask them is that we have some 2.4 installations (where things like "with" aren't available) and at the time I typed up the list, there was some earlier 2.2 and 2.3 code out there where decorators or sqlite[*] didn't work. So I guess it's a bit of a "how long have they been programming in python" experience aspect. Programmers that have been around a while often remember the frustration of $FEATURE_LACK and then the relief of a much better way to do it. The functionality of decorators was around far earlier, but the clean syntactic sugar made it much nicer to use. The sqlite/sqlite3 libraries were around, but you had to install them yourself (whether from source, a custom installer, or your package manager). As mentioned in another branch of this thread, I don't require python historians, but do prefer folks that know which features to check availability for deployment. -tkc [*] without installing an add-on -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list