Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'correct.': 0.07; 'nasty': 0.07; 'preference': 0.07; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; '2.7': 0.14; 'language.': 0.14; 'mostly': 0.14; 'buggy': 0.16; 'incorrect': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'subject:python': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '>>>': 0.22; 'tests': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'text.': 0.24; 'sort': 0.25; 'possibly': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'correct': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; 'code': 0.31; 'class': 0.32; "we're": 0.32; 'run': 0.32; 'cases': 0.33; 'except': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'etc': 0.35; 'test': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'surely': 0.36; 'doing': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'everybody': 0.60; 'subject:"': 0.60; 'simple': 0.61; 'our': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'upper': 0.74; 'faster.': 0.84; 'irrelevant': 0.84; 'prefers': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Blog "about python 3" Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 04:04:39 +0000 References: <52c1dc4c$0$2877$c3e8da3$76491128@news.astraweb.com> <52C1F5EC.3020808@stoneleaf.us> <52c29416$0$29987$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <52c6415c$0$29972$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <52C6AD00.5050000@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-28-114.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1388808283 news.xs4all.nl 2885 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:53106 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:63104 On 03/01/2014 22:00, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 1/3/2014 7:28 AM, Robin Becker wrote: >> On 03/01/2014 09:01, Terry Reedy wrote: >>> There was more speedup in 3.3.2 and possibly even more in 3.3.3, so OP >>> should run the latter. >> >> python 3.3.3 is what I use on windows. As for astral / non-bmp etc etc >> that's almost irrelevant for the sort of tests we're doing which are >> mostly simple english text. > > If you do not test the cases where 2.7 is buggy and requires nasty > workarounds, then I can understand why you do not so much appreciate 3.3 > ;-). > Are you crazy? Surely everybody prefers fast but incorrect code in preference to something that is correct but slow? Except that Python 3.3.3 is often faster. And always (to my knowledge) correct. Upper Class Twit of the Year anybody? :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence