Also see my talk at PyCascades and Victor's upcoming talk at PyCon. On Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 12:02 Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 10:19 Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > >> On Apr 26, 2018, at 09:28, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > 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. :) >> >> It would certainly be an interesting document, but I suspect you’ll get a >> bit of the old “ask 3 lawyers and get 5 opinions” kind of response. ;) >> >> As I remember it, there was definitely a feeling like, this would be our >> only chance to clean up some annoying cruft, and rectify some (in >> hindsight) incorrect design decisions made over the years, couple with a >> healthy dose of “we have no idea how to do the bytes/str split in a >> backward compatible way". There was probably a sense that the Python >> community was just small enough to be able to handle such a disruptive >> change, but wouldn’t ever be so again. The latter is definitely true >> today, even if the former was overly optimistic. >> > > I agree with everything Barry said. There are some lessons in hindsight of > how we could have handled bytes/str, but it was more of a decision of > "really long transition versus a short one" -- jokes on us for what "short" > became ;) -- which we simply won't make ever again. > _______________________________________________ > 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/guido%40python.org >
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