[Python-Dev] (Looking for) A Retrospective on the Move to Python 3 (original) (raw)

INADA Naoki songofacandy at gmail.com
Sat Apr 28 08:06:10 EDT 2018

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 10:36 AM Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Victor Stinner wrote: > In my opinion, the largest failure of Python 3 is that we failed to > provide a smooth and slow transition from Python 2 and Python 3.

Although for some things, such as handling of non-ascii text, it's hard to see how a smooth transition could have been achieved. Is it a failure if we don't succeed in doing the impossible?

I don't think it's your (I'm not core developer at the time) failure. On the other hand, we should avoid many changes (e.g. bytes[index]) when doing such big change next time.

-- INADA Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com>

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