When will Python 3 be fully deployed

Gabriel Genellina gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar
Thu Dec 10 22:09:45 EST 2009


En Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:18:13 -0300, John Nagle <nagle at animats.com>  
escribió:
> Luis M. González wrote:
>> On Dec 6, 3:21 pm, vsoler <vicente.so... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     I'd argue against using Python 2.6 for production work.  Either use  
> Python 2.5, which is stable, or 3.x, which is bleeding-edge.  2.6 has  
> some of the
> features of Python 3.x, but not all of them, and is neither fish nor fowl
> as a result.  2.6 is really more of a sideline that was used for trying
> out new features, not something suitable for production.
>
>     I think the idea is to run your 2.5 code through '2to3" and see if it
> works in 3.x.

In addition to Ned Deily's previous comments, I'd like to note that 2to3  
assumes the source is valid 2.6 code - you have to ensure the code runs  
fine with Python 2.6 before using 2to3 to convert to 3.x

-- 
Gabriel Genellina




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