On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In pondering our approach to future Python major releases, I found
> myself considering the experience we've had with Python 3. The whole
> Py3k effort predates my involvement in the community so I missed a
> bunch of context about the motivations, decisions, and challenges.
> While I've pieced some of that together over the years now since I've
> been around, I've certainly seen much of the aftermath. For me, at
> least, it would be helpful to have a bit more insight into the
> history. :)
As to motivation, I suppose (since I wasn't involved yet) that it was roughly:
let's bite the bullet and fix unicode with a backward-incompatible release
which led to:
well, we're already going to break backward compatibility so we might
as well get any breakage we're planning over with now so folks only
have to fix their code for this release
and then to:
oh, and while we're at it let's clean up a bunch of cruft that's built up
over the years
At least that's my impression. :)
-eric
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