From: aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 22:49:09 GMT Subject: Python 2.0 compatibility References: Message-ID: Content-Length: 1379 X-UID: 370 In article , Paranoid User wrote: > >We have selected Python as the scripting language for the next generation of >one of our embedded systems. This is a very fast-track project scheduled to >ship near the end of the first quarter of 2000. > >I ran across a quote that said something to the effect that Python 2 will be >incompatible with Python 1. Before I make a decision as to whether we >freeze with Python 1.5.2, or migrate to Python 2 when it is released, I need >to find out the extent of truthfulness in the "quote". I'm not in the know about Python 2, but I do know this much: Python 2 will almost certainly not ship before your product. Python 2 has also not been completely designed yet, so nobody (not even Guido) knows the extent to which Python 2 will be incompatible. There's also the likely release of Python 1.6; I don't know whether that's in parallel with the Python 2 development. I suggest that you work with 1.5.2 and worry about future releases when there's more clarity. -- --- Aahz (@netcom.com) Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 <*> http://www.rahul.net/aahz/ Androgynous poly kinky vanilla queer het If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. -- Thomas Pynchon (from EFF quote collection)