Reply to post: Re: But but

For real this time, get your butt off Python 2: No updates, no nothing after 1 January 2020

david 12 Silver badge

Re: But but

It was c purity they were trying to maintain, as also shown by the <> != change, and the insistence at the time that the c library was the only possible way to do math (thankfully abandoned soon after, but following years of amazing blindness)

The people who maintained python-written-in-c were really c programmers at heart, and at the time of the fork between 2.x and 3.0, their idea of what a language should look like was still defined by c.

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