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Subject: Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>> Quote:
>>
>>         if six.PY2:
>>             # Python 2 code
>>         elif six.PY3:
>>             # Python 3 code
>>
>>     In this case, no code will get executed on Python 4 at all!
>
>
> Which is good, because if no code is executed, it can't exhibit
> any bugs.
>
> Everyone should write their code this way, and then Python 4
> will make *all* bugs in *all* programs disappear!
>

And if that is not enough, imagine how faster all tasks will finish.

-- 
Bernardo Sulzbach