2018-05-18 8:05 GMT+02:00 Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> It's Python 3.8, and I learn that in 4.0 "spam" is going to become a >> keyword. I simply take my code and change all the references spam to \spam, >> and I've future-proofed the code for 4.0 while still keeping compatibility >> with 3.8 and 3.9. >> > > Okay, maybe it helps a little bit, but not very much. There > will still be a lot of reluctance to add new keywords, because > of the disruption it will cause to existing code
And the alternative is to replace all occurrences of spam with 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐦 , which has the same effect and also is backward-compatible with 3.x for x < 8. So there is already a kind of solution available, albeit an ugly one. Stephan If we've learned nothing else from the Python 3 changeover, > it's that many people work in an environment where it's > extremely difficult to update working code. > > -- > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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