The looming Python 3(000) monster
Matej Cepl
mcepl at redhat.com
Fri Dec 5 14:51:24 UTC 2008
On 2008-12-05, 14:42 GMT, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> I personally haven't tried it yet, but it /aims/ to be
> incompatble, which is perhaps one of the most glaring signs
> a language designer has lost it that I've seen.
Guido was preparing on this incompatibility for years, so unless
you were sleeping you should not be surprised.
> but it's pretty bad for someone who wants to keep a single
> codebase across EL 4 (Python 2.3) and up, which I think a lot
> of us do.
The party line is that you should develop against python 2.6
(which doesn't block you from being compatible with Python 2.3)
and then conversion from 2.6 to 3.* would be guaranteed to be
done just with a script.
Matěj
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