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• 3/35 - python 103 - incompatible python versions

  Posted by Pha. brenner 13 from on 2010-08-01 08:50:14

  Hi,

  
  I just solved riddle 3-35
  It's a python riddle.
  I have a suggestion for a small fix/update for this riddle.
  It appears that something (not telling what - in order to not give hints) which was used in that riddle is now obsolete. Apparently, the riddle was coded for python 2, but now the version used is python 3.1, and this riddle cannot be solved in any version of python 3 (unless making some more changes in the python code). It's just not backwards compatible.
  I believe that solving it in newer version demands introducing some more changes into the code.
  This can be quite frustrating for people who learn python nowadays and are not aware of older versions of python.
  
  Brenner
  

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• 3/35 - python 103 - incompatible python versions

  Posted by Viz. s_ha_dum 81 from on 2010-08-01 09:58:23 Reply

  That Python 2 is obsolete is somewhat debatable. Python 3 broke a lot of very common and useful libraries so its adoption has been pretty slow. There is still a lot of Python 2 out there.  Still, as time passes this will become more of a problem so maybe a a note in the description is warranted.

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• 3/35 - python 103 - incompatible python versions

  Posted by Pha. Sphinx 6553 from on 2010-08-01 23:25:59 Reply

  Hi brenner,

  Could you pm me the fix or update?

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  Huuuuuuu