[Distutils] [Distribute] Python 3 porting effort - plans proposal for 0.7/0.8

Hanno Schlichting hanno at hannosch.eu
Thu Jul 23 22:03:43 CEST 2009


On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Lennart Regebro<regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But It's quite important imho to have the best strategy for next
>> releases, and I can't picture the same branch with bits of 2.x and 3.x syntax in it.
>
> You don't have that. You write for Python 2, and convert it with 2to3.

+1, that's the official way and we should stick to that.

And at some point we hopefully get the 3to2 tool and can switch the
process around with the 3.x code being the canonical one.

Hanno


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