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Re:PEP 0448 – Additional Unpacking Generalizations by pekk on Friday July 17, 2015 @10:48PM (#9906395)
If you were happy with 2.5 a few years ago, why is it any more unbearable to use 2.7 today?
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Re:PEP 0448 – Additional Unpacking Generalizations by Redoubts on Friday July 17, 2015 @11:55PM (#9906526)
>If you were happy with 2.5 a few years ago

Do you mean 9 years ago?

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But the real answer to your question is because I keep running into problems that have more elegant solutions in 3.x

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Re:PEP 0448 – Additional Unpacking Generalizations by pekk on Saturday July 18, 2015 @12:45AM (#9906618)
There are plenty of problems that have more elegant solutions in other languages. I don't see that it makes your life unbearable for other solutions to be available.
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Re:PEP 0448 – Additional Unpacking Generalizations by marvy on Saturday July 18, 2015 @01:25AM (#9906673)
Quirk of human psychology: you now know what you're missing. I have this problem sometimes. When I remind myself that it's just a quirk of my own mind, it sometimes helps.
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