On 20 Sep, 2009, at 20:58, Armin Ronacher wrote:


Regardless of whether the semantics would be better or not, we can't
change APIs every 2 years, it will make our users furous.
Right, but how many people are using Python 3?

This irrelevant. Python 3.x is bound by the same API stability rules
as the 2.x releases.

One way to ensure that 3.x isn't used a lot is to keep making
incompatible changes, that way anyone that wants to use
Python 3 in production code will stay away.

Ronald

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