[Image-SIG] Python 3 support

[Guilherme Polo]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Charlie Clark <charlie at begeistert.org> wrote:
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> Am 19.03.2009 um 19:28 schrieb Cristi Constantin:
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>> Thank you very much for your answers.
>> I will wait for PIL 1.1.7 quietly. :)
>
>
> While I think a lot of people would love to see a rapid migration to Python
> 3, it is a lot of work for many libraries (anything written in C)

I see the issue other way around, it is more troublesome to update
pure python code to 3.x than to port the C part.

> and,
> therefore, for the people who maintain them. In the meantime I think it is
> reasonable to expect users to target Python 2.6 which should encourage more
> Python 3.0 stuff without breaking important aspects of backward
> compatability for many projects.
>
> Charlie
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