Re: py3k s***s

On Apr 16, 11:15 am, Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 16 abr, 09:56, Aaron Watters <aaron.watt...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In my opinion python's adherence to backwards compatibility
has been a bit mythological anyway -- many new python versions
have broken my old code for no good reason. This is an irritant
when you have thousands of users out there who suddenly drop
your code, blame you and python, and move on to use something else.
Honestly, how hard would it have been to provide standard backwards
support for the old regex module as a standard module which simply
translated one regex string format to another, for example?

Do you mean this?

py> import reconvert
py> help(reconvert)...

Yes I mean it. Actually I was unaware
of/forgot reconvert, but it doesn't
matter because it doesn't solve the problem of code I wrote that
has long ago escaped into the wild no longer working. There are
other examples too, having to do with things as simple as a name
change in a standard module that broke old
code of mine for what I regard as silly cosmetic reasons.

I hope you are right about py3k conversions being pain
free and routine. I'm suspicious about it however.

-- Aaron Watters

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