On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 01:06:30 -0500 Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > - does it make Python easier to learn and teach? > > By whom? Almost no addition has ever made a language easier to learn > for raw beginners: every addition is something they eventually need > to learn. We could make Python easier to learn for beginners by > throwing out virtually everything added since version 0.9.6 ;-)
Constructs like "with ..." or "try / except / finally" make the language easier to learn compared to the dances they are meant to replace. "await" is a more readable and less confusing improvement over "yield from". Format strings dispense from the older, more convoluted formulations. Iteration is much simpler than the longer forms we would have to write if generalized iterators didn't exist. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
