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On 9/30/2014 5:15 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
> Since the developers of Python decided to make Python 3 non backward
> compatible,

This is a trollish exaggeration.

 > I can't help but wonder why they don't think a command to
> restart would be a useful addition?

More trollishness.  Python does not have 'commands'.

Feature additions are independent of the changes make in 3.0.  2.7 got 
many new features, and even now is getting a few new security features.

One cannot have opinions about something they do not think of.

If you want to propose a new feature, just do that.  Describe a use case 
and how the feature would look, using current Python syntax, and how it 
would operate.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy