Re: Two problems w/ subversion

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:56:27AM -0700, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> Are there incompatible differences between python 1 and 2 that mandate the
> difference? Are they significant, or small cleanups like the perl 4 vs 5
> difference?

The differences between the two are not *so* large (Unicode support was added
after Python 1.5.2 but I don't think that is an issue here yet). However,
some syntactic conveniences provided in Python 2.0 are so nice that they are
widespread. For example,
    - string methods:
      Before you had to do this:
        import string
        print string.split("hello there buddy", " ")
      Now you can do this:
        s = "hello there buddy"
        s.split(" ")
    - augmented assignment: i.e. +=,-=,*=,etc.

c.f. http://amk.ca/python/2.0/

Trent

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Trent Mick
TrentM@ActiveState.com
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