[Python-Dev] Community buildbots

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Thu Jul 13 23:07:07 CEST 2006


On Jul 13, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Giovanni Bajo wrote:

> glyph at divmod.com wrote:
>
>> (Aside: IMHO, the sooner we can drop old-style classes entirely, the
>> better.
>> That is one bumpy Python upgrade process that I will be _very_ happy
>> to do.
>
> I think python should have a couple more of future imports. "from  
> __future__
> import new_classes" and "from __future__ import unicode_literals"  
> would be
> really welcome, and would smooth the Py3k migration process

"from __future__ import new_classes" exists, but the syntax is  
different:

__metaclass__ = type

-bob



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