Chris Hengge wrote: > I hope this is related enough for this thread, but I'm curious why > people didn't seem to unanimously jump into 2.5 upon release. Python > seems very good about holding its backward compatibility vs some other > languages I've dealt with like C# that seems to require applications > rewritten with every patch. Was there just nothing that "grand" about > the new version? I've personally held back just because most of the > documentation I've come across is for 2.4, and until I get a firmer feel > for the language I'm trying to not mix things up.
Speaking for myself as a Win32 user, you generally have to recompile / download compiled binaries for any new release of Python. I have downloaded 2.5 and there certainly are things which interest me, but I won't shift to using it for mainstream work until all the modules I need are available at 2.5. (For the most part I could compile them myself with mingw32, but you start to realise just how much work is involved when you need to download libs and headers for all the externals. So I'm lazy and wait for the project maintainer to supply...). Also I'm faintly chary of starting to use some whizz-bang new feature (like the with block) which is incompatible with 2.4 and then trying to run the code on my webserver where I've only got 2.4! TJG _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
