Those two controversial 2nd & 3rd paragraphs of my ch 1

Daniel Fetchinson fetchinson at googlemail.com
Wed Jan 13 15:07:29 EST 2010


>> One code base of cheetah works under python 2 and 3? I doubt it, but I
>> could be wrong. What I can easily imagine is that somebody ported
>> cheetah to python 3. In this case there are two code bases, one for
>> python 2 and another for python 3. So it's not the same program that
>> runs under python 2 and 3.
>>
>
> I don't know about Cheetah, but I have read about other programs with
> one code base that run under both Python 2 and Python 3.  And I can
> guarantee that it is the case for Crunchy.
>
> It *is* possible to have one program working correctly under both
> Python 2 *and* 3 with a single code base.  It might not be the
> officially recommended way... but that does not make it impossible.

Cool, thanks, I didn't know about crunchy having this property, good to know.

Cheers,
Daniel


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