Adam Williamson wrote:
Clearly what I meant was "any future non-backwards-compatible
major
Python release". Maybe *right now* you don't expect there to be one,
but I'm sure there was probably a point during Python 1's lifetime at
which no-one expected there to be a backwards-incompatible Python 2,
and a point during Python 2's lifetime at which no-one expected there
to be a backwards-incompatible Python 3...
Spot on.
There is a Swedish proverb. I don't know whether an English version
exists, but in translation it is: One time is no time; two times is a
habit. Since the Python API has been broken twice, we can expect that
it will be broken again.
Björn Persson