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p.s. Raymond: fwiw, I think "makes it easy / hard for beginners" is only of secondary importance. Certainly I think it's reasonable to point out in a discussion, and if the beginners are easy to accommodate then okay. But if there was something that was a big win in most ways but made life harder for beginners, imo the beginners would have to take it on the chin.
I reflect now and then on the fascinating point you made on Radio Free Python--"Unicode is now day-0 knowledge for Python"--but I have no idea what to do about it. Or about the larger point of accommodating beginners in the face of mounting language complexity. *shrug*
My point is, I agree that os.walk(dir_fd=) probably shouldn't happen--but that's simply because we don't need it. Whether or not it made life easier or harder for beginners didn't really figure into my consideration. |
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