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On 16/02/2014 14:25, Roy Smith wrote:
>
> We tend not to upgrade stuff unless there's a good reason to.  You never
> know what will break (looking furtively in the direction of the Python
> 3.x mafiosi).
>

Yeah, those really unpleasant, nasty, horrible mafiosi who have the 
audacity to point out that people have only been given seven (ish) years 
so far to plan and implement their upgrades.  Then the mafiosi further 
complain when people ask if they can have a Python 2.8 to help plan and 
implement their upgrades.  Yep, this mafiosi mob really do have a lot to 
answer for.  Not.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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