"Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Anyway, you're confusing "instability" (I hate that word,
> it has connotations of unreliability, which aren't intended)
> with "enhancement". The API gets changed, yes, but by
> adding new things, almost never by remov
Richard Brodie wrote:
"Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Python is exceptionally backwards compatible, so generally
code from an older version will run unchanged on newer
Pythons.
I'm just curious: why exceptionally? I like Python for a lot of
reasons but I
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 11:03:58 -, Richard Brodie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm just curious: why exceptionally? I like Python for a lot of
> reasons but I wouldn't put API stability high on the list.
> Not compared with a traditional language like C or Fortran,
> anyway. Which languages go aro
"Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Python is exceptionally backwards compatible, so generally
> code from an older version will run unchanged on newer
> Pythons.
I'm just curious: why exceptionally? I like Python for a lot of
reasons but I wouldn't put A
Peter Hansen wrote:
Randall Smith wrote:
As Python changes and old code still needs to work properly, I wonder
if there is a standard way to note which version of the Python
interpreter code is intended to work with. I know that an executable
may begin with #!/usr/bin/python2.3 or something sim
Randall Smith wrote:
As Python changes and old code still needs to work properly, I wonder if
there is a standard way to note which version of the Python interpreter
code is intended to work with. I know that an executable may begin with
#!/usr/bin/python2.3 or something similar, but what about
As Python changes and old code still needs to work properly, I wonder if
there is a standard way to note which version of the Python interpreter
code is intended to work with. I know that an executable may begin with
#!/usr/bin/python2.3 or something similar, but what about libraries and
such?
