[Python-3000] generics [was: Discussions with no PEPs]

[Guido van Rossum]

On 3/12/07, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/12/07, Tony Lownds <tony at pagedna.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mar 12, 2007, at 12:06 PM, Collin Winter wrote:
> >
> > > I can take care of it. It'll be a good excuse to get back to 2to3
> > > after a few days spent in the depths of the patch tracker : )

Great! I'll leave this to you then.

> > Cool. Out of curiosity, what versions of Python should 2to3 need to
> > run? I know that 2to3/refactor.py needs 2.3 < Python < 3.0. Guess which
> > versions I have handy :)
>
> I use 2.5. 2.3 and 2.4 both fail the test suite, bailing out with
> SyntaxErrors in various places.

I think that if it becomes a requirement it shouldn't be too hard to
make the refactoring tool work with older versions though, up to 2.2.
but we should determine need first.

> > Also, since I believe sys.exc_info() is staying, fix_sysexcinfo
> > should change...
>
> Right. It's already on my todo list.

I must've missed that. What happened?

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