[Python-Dev] Continuing 2.x
Victor Stinner
victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Thu Oct 28 11:38:20 CEST 2010
Le jeudi 28 octobre 2010 05:12:09, James Y Knight a écrit :
> The python community has already decided many times over that Python2 is
> dead and Python3 is the future. ... I think you'd be best off doing
> so on your own infrastructure: convincing the python developers to support
> such a thing is quite unlikely, and furthermore, completely unnecessary.
*I* don't really care to Python 2.x anymore: I consider Python 2.7 as mature
and very stable. New features can still be developed as Python or C extensions
(browse the Python package index to get some examples).
I don't want to touch the Python2 core (the interpreter or the standard
library) because it is too expensive (in time).
I prefer to focus on Python3 because Python3 core has a better design: strict
separation between bytes and characters, no more short integer type, no more
old style class, etc. It's easier to work on Python3 core. Backport a patch
from Python3 to Python2 takes between 10 minutes and 3 hours (or maybe more on
complex patches) because the function names, C macros, even file names, (...),
has changed. And I don't know automatic tools to convert a Python3 patch to a
Python2 patch (eg. a "3to2" tool, for patches). I don't want to spend 3 hours
or more on a "dead project".
But when I find a bug in Python3, I immediatly check if it does also exist in
Python2. And if both version are affected, I try to fix all versions (if it
doesn't break the API).
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Victor Stinner
http://www.haypocalc.com/
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