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Asciiflow 13 years ago

Putting an informative README in your git repository seems a pretty common practice these days.

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Python 3.4 Beta 1 Released 13 years ago

No one objected to using "pure" instead of the more common "abstract" (which is the actual antonym of "concrete") ?? Why do people do this?

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The Impossible Music of Black MIDI 13 years ago

It's not a song, it's a prelude. And actually not very technically difficult, one reason for its immediate and enduring popularity. The simultaneous chords are just played very quickly one after the other and not "rolled".

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How to support both Python 2 and 3 13 years ago

I'll start with the conclusion: making backwards incompatible version of a language is a terrible idea, and it was bad a mistake.

So let me fix that: I do recommend a single code base as the solution.

The original advice to think very separately about your 2.x and 3.x codebases was very wrong, has wasted a ton of time (since you end up porting to python 3 twice), and overall slowed down the adoption of py3k, a slowdown that fortunately is finally lifting.

Is this opinion common? Do Guido and the other core developers admit they were wrong?

Python 3.0 will break backwards compatibility. Totally. We're not even aiming for a specific common subset.

That a single code base is now possible, albeit "not entirely idiomatic", does support the conclusion that the original aim to break compatibility was misguided at best, and raises questions about the governance of Python overall.

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Thank you HN, sorry HN 13 years ago

This.

The best way to reciprocate is to commit to being the best "you" you can be. Good things will flow naturally from that.

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