Python 3 [was Re: substituting list comprehensions for map()]
by Steven D'Aprano other posts by this author
Nov 4 2009 3:47PM messages near this date
Re: module imports and st_mtime
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Re: problem in installing wxwidgets for python.
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:08:54 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steven@[...].au> writes:
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> > On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:43:45 -0600, Robert Kern wrote:
> > > from numpy import dot
> > >
> > > scalar = dot(vec1, vec2)
> >
> > Why would I want to use an already existing library that is fast, well-
> > written and well-supported, when I can toss together a nasty kludge
> > myself?
>
> Because using that library will ensure you can't migrate to Python 3 any
> time soon?
Why would I want to migrate to Python 3 any time soon? 2.5 and 2.6 meet
my needs (so far), and the new features in Python 3 aren't especially
compelling to me. Particularly if migrating to 3 requires me to re-write
all the libraries, where's the advantage?
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Steven
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