On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Lennart Regebro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I haven't read that thread yet (and probably never will), but I want > > to draw a line in the sand. In order to avoid a slippery slope, I'm > > not putting backwards compatibility in 3.0 for stuff we want killed > > *except* for certain exceptions that 2to3 can't fix. (The only one I > > am aware of being % formatting, which will survive alongside .format() > > for now.) > > > > Hopefully this will kill the discussion. > > The discussion pretty much immediately moved from u"" in 3.0 to a > __future__ import in 2.6. The rest of the discussion proved ultimately > pointless and can safely be ignored.
Thanks; the __future__ import in 2.6 sounds great. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
