running python 2 vs 3

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Thu Mar 20 18:23:07 EDT 2014


Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com>:
> On 3/20/14 4:59 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Well, with proper care, I suppose the same code base could support perl
>> as well. ;)
>
> I'm not sure how to take this comment. I feel like you are mocking my
> choice. I wanted to make coverage.py available to as broad an audience
> as possible, something that I think is worthwhile. Yes, there was an
> engineering cost, but the tradeoff was worth it.

I can't judge if your particular choice was the right one. My only point
is that python2 and python3 are so far apart as to be regarded as
independent languages.


Marko



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