Perhaps we need to defer const for a while (3.0?)

[bearophile]

Bruce Adams:

> Still python has its own pitfuls. 

Python has its warts, but they are small/tiny compared to C/C++/D/Java/Perl ones, and with Python 3.0 lot (but not all) of them will be removed.


> How many versions of popen do you need to get it right?

>From Python 2.4 we have the subprocess module in the std lib:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html


> When something is broken a breaking change is sometimes required.
> I detest having to support old broken ways of doing things but accept
> that its an occasional necessity.

Take a look at Python 3.0a2:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

Bye,
bearophile