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From: aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch)
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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 22:49:09 GMT
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Subject: Python 2.0 compatibility
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References: <GIOP2.37825$A6.19136587@news1.teleport.com>
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Message-ID: <aahzF9zwpx.AnH@netcom.com>
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X-UID: 370
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In article <GIOP2.37825$A6.19136587 at news1.teleport.com>,
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Paranoid User <root at localhost> wrote:
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>We have selected Python as the scripting language for the next generation of
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>one of our embedded systems. This is a very fast-track project scheduled to
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>ship near the end of the first quarter of 2000.
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>I ran across a quote that said something to the effect that Python 2 will be
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>incompatible with Python 1. Before I make a decision as to whether we
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>freeze with Python 1.5.2, or migrate to Python 2 when it is released, I need
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>to find out the extent of truthfulness in the "quote".
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I'm not in the know about Python 2, but I do know this much: Python 2
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will almost certainly not ship before your product. Python 2 has also
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not been completely designed yet, so nobody (not even Guido) knows the
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extent to which Python 2 will be incompatible.
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There's also the likely release of Python 1.6; I don't know whether
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that's in parallel with the Python 2 development.
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I suggest that you work with 1.5.2 and worry about future releases when
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there's more clarity.
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--
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--- Aahz (@netcom.com)
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Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 <*> http://www.rahul.net/aahz/
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry
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about the answers. -- Thomas Pynchon (from EFF quote collection)
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