[Python-Dev] Bring new features to older python versions

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:22:12AM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 10/10/2011 4:21 PM, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote:
> >Thanks everybody for your feedback.
> >I created a gcode project here:
> >http://code.google.com/p/pycompat/
> 
> This project will be easier if the test suite for a particular
> function/class/module is up to par. If you find any gaping holes, you
> might file an issue on the tracker.
> 
About testsuites... one issue that you'll run into is that while some stdlib
modules are written with backporting to older versions in mind, their
testsuites are not.  For instance, subprocess from python-2.7 runs fine on
python-2.3+.  The testsuite for subprocess in python-2.7 makes use of the
with statement, though, so it has to be ported.

-Toshio
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