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by neoncontrails 1045 days ago
Which syntactic features have changed in ways that aren't backwards compatible? I've had some minor headaches, don't get me wrong, but in each case those headaches are a result of interface changes to common objects, like Exception-types. Python has added some syntactic sugar between minor releases, sure, but never at the expense of backwards compatibility.
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retrocryptid 1044 days ago
Package variables. Class variables. Syntax changed between 2.3, 2.5 and 2.7. And the semantics changed somewhere between 2.3 and 2.7.
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neoncontrails 1044 days ago
Wow, didn't realize folks were still actively developing on Python 2.x. FWIW, the Python steering committee takes backwards-compatibility pretty seriously these days. Here's a recent mailing list discussion on it's decision to reject a popular PEP on the grounds that it would have broken Pydantic: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/...
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