On Mon, Aug 22, 2016, at 09:21, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > Rather, you just use the features you rely on, document the minimum > supported version, and if somebody is silly enough to try running your > code > under Python 1.4, they'll get a SyntaxError or an exception when you try > to > do something that is not supported.
Receiving a SyntaxError or whatever other exception, which provides no suggestion about how to actually fix the issue (install a later version of python / run with "python3" instead of "python"), is a bad user experience. It will continue to be a bad user experience when people are using features that only work on python 5.0 and later and other people are trying to run their scripts under python 4.0, so it not having existed all along is not a sufficient justification to not consider adding it,. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
