Python 3 is killing Python

[Mark Lawrence]

On 15/07/2014 15:31, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com> wrote:
>
>> I've stayed with Python 2.7 because I've seen no benefit in 3.x that
>> outweighs the hassle of going through my code line by line to make it
>> compatible.
>
> And that's fine! The python-dev team has promised that 2.7 will
> continue to be supported; that means some headaches, especially on
> Windows (the Python 2.7 support will long outlast upstream Microsoft
> support for the compiler it's built on), but it's a promise that you
> can continue to run your 2.7 code.
>
> That said, though, I would advise you to give 2to3 a shot. You never
> know, it might do exactly what you need right out-of-the-box and give
> you a 3.x-compatible codebase in one hit.
>

Or any one of

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six/1.7.3
https://github.com/mitsuhiko/python-modernize
http://python-future.org/
https://github.com/nandoflorestan/nine

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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