[Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X (original) (raw)

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sat Jun 19 18:07:43 CEST 2010

At 10:55 PM 6/19/2010 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

They really don't care that writing Python 3 was fun, and that programming in Python 3 is more fun than ever. That doesn't compensate for even one lingering str/bytes bogosity to most of them, and since they don't get paid for fixing Python library bugs, they don't, and they're in no mood to forgive any, either.

This is pretty much where I'm at, except that the only potential fun increase Py3 appears to offer me are argument annotations and keyword-only args -- but these are partly balanced by the loss of argument tuple unpacking. The metaclass keyword argument is nice, but the loss of dynamically-settable metaclass is just plain annoying.

Really, just about everything that Py3 offers in the way of added fun, seems offset by a matching loss somewhere else. So it's hard to get excited about it - it seems like, "ho hum, a new language that's kind of like Python, but just different enough to be annoying."

OTOH, I don't know what to do about that, besides adding some sort of "killer app" feature that makes Python 3 the One Obvious Way to do some specific application domain.

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