Detecting __future__ features

André andre.roberge at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 10:49:57 EDT 2007


On Jul 30, 11:10 am, Neil Cerutti <horp... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 2007-07-30, Diez B. Roggisch <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
>
> > Making the switch between different parser-implementations on
> > the fly isn't technically impossible - but really, really,
> > really complicated. But then, if it's lameness sucks so much,
> > you might wanna take a stab at it?
>
> I was considering the following specific quote:
>
>   What if you are designing a module meant to be imported, and
>   used by other programs over which you have no control?   You
>   can't use "from __future__ import" in your module."
>
> If that were true, I think it would indeed be lame. Of course, it
> isn't true, right?
>

Yes, it was my mistake; I replied too quicly from a faulty memory
bank...

(extract foot from mouth ... inhale deeply to resupply oxygen to the
brain ...)
André

> --
> Neil Cerutti





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