Why has python3 been created as a seperate language where there is still python2.7 ?

HoneyMonster nobody at someplace.invalid
Tue Jun 26 18:37:23 EDT 2012


On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:39:42 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:08 AM, John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
>>    The Python 3 to MySQL connection is still a mess.
>> The original developer of MySQLdb doesn't want to support Python 3.
> 
> This is where I would start asking: How hard is it to migrate to another
> SQL database (eg Postgres)? That is, assuming that there's one with
> proper Py3 support. But I would find it hard to believe that there's
> _no_ good database with a Python 3 access module.

psycopg2 (Python interface to PostgreSQL) supports Python 3.1 and 3.2 as 
well as Python 2. It works superbly.

PostgreSQL is a far better database then MySQL anyway.




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