The real problem with Python 3 - no business case for conversion (was "I strongly dislike Python 3")

Zooko O'Whielacronx zooko at zooko.com
Thu Jul 8 00:07:10 EDT 2010


Dear Paul McGuire:

Thank you very much for these notes!

See also a few other notes:

Michael Foord: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2010_03_20.shtml#e1167
Ned Batchelder:
http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200910/running_the_same_code_on_python_2x_and_3x.html

I was wondering if it would be useful to have a library that
implements these hacks so that people like me who prefer to maintain a
single codebase instead of using a tool like 2to3 could easily adopt
them.

Oh look! Here is one:

http://pybites.blogspot.com/2010/06/six-python-23-compatibility-helpers.html

:-)

Regards,

Zooko



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