bruno at modulix wrote: > Max M wrote: >> bruno at modulix wrote: >> >>>> Or did you just like what you saw and decided to learn it for fun? >>> >>> Well, I haven't be really impressed the first time - note that it was at >>> the very end of the last century, with v1.5.2. >> >> >> 1.5.2 was an excellent version. Not really that different in use than >> current version. > > Nope, "not really that different" - we were just missing list-comps, > generators, new-style classes, classmethods, staticmethods, usable > metaclasses, descriptors, @decorators sugar, extended slices, and a few > other goodies coming in 2.5 like coroutines and with: statement...
I wrote "different in use". Which is not the same as saying it has not changed. The general feel of coding in Python is exactly the same to me. I believe that most of those changes you mention are rarely used by most programmers. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science Phone: +45 66 11 84 94 Mobile: +45 29 93 42 96 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list