Python's Moratorium - Let's think about this. Jesse Noller explains the thinking behind the Python Language Moratorium (no new language features until Python 3.3) in great detail. It’s principally about allowing both end users and alternative implementations to catch up. The standard library will continue to evolve as normal.
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I think it's a great idea!
Dave K - 6th December 2009 09:14 - #
In all fairness, most python users were already facing a moratorium on new language features anyway.
I'm not moaning "python 2.x is ending and nobody will ever upgrade to 3.x." But wasn't it already pretty much decided that 2.x development would focus on maintenance and ease of upgrade to 3.x ever since the py3k work really kicked off, anyway? And this moratorium doesn't stop that from happening at all, it still allows 3.x features to be backported. And isn't the only new language feature in 2.6 that this moratorium would have touched on with, which was already in 2.5's __future__ anyway?
I do hope having something like 4 years until the next 3.x release with new language features (2 years until the "status quo" 3.2, presumably 2 more years until 3.3) will help it spread. I can see how it will help if during those four years you can specify 3.1 or 3.2 rather than having to demand everyone not only run 3.x but also 3.2 specifically.
Bob - 6th December 2009 17:43 - #
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