Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > > Greg Stein wrote: > > > > Note that Guido posted a note to c.l.py on Monday. I believe that meets > > > > your notification criteria. > > > > > > ahem. do you seriously believe that everyone in the > > > Python universe reads comp.lang.python? > > > > > > afaik, most Python programmers don't. > > > > Now you're simply taking my comments out of context. Not a proper thing to > > do. Ken said that he wanted notification along certain guidelines. I said > > that I believed Guido's post did just that. Period. > > my point was that most Python programmers won't > see that notification. when these people download > 1.6 final and find that all theirs apps just broke, they > probably won't be happy with a pointer to dejanews. Dito. Anyone remember the str(2L) == '2' change, BTW ? That one will cost lots of money in case someone implemented an eShop using the common str(2L)[:-1] idiom... There will need to be a big warning sign somewhere that people see *before* finding the download link. (IMHO, anyways.) > > And which is that? Care to help out? Maybe just a little bit? > > this rather common pydiom: > > append = list.append > for x in something: > append(...) > > it's used a lot where performance matters. Same here. checkappend.py doesn't find these (a great tool BTW, thanks Tim; I noticed that it leaks memory badly though). > > Or do you just want to talk about how bad this change is? :-( > > yes, I think it's bad. I've been using Python since 1.2, > and no other change has had the same consequences > (wrt. time/money required to fix it) > > call me a crappy programmer if you want, but I'm sure > there are others out there who are nearly as bad. and > lots of them won't be aware of this change until some- > one upgrades the python interpreter on their server. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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