[IPython-dev] Jython support in ipython

[Thomas Kluyver]

On 23 October 2010 00:04, <ipython-dev-request at scipy.org> wrote:

> Trying a little bit more by disabling that version check, I discovered that
> at least 2.6's support of print as a function, instead of a statement, is
> used. Now Jython 2.6 work kicked off just this week, so hopefully we don't
> really need 2.6. Jython 2.5 does have two key 2.6 features that you might
> be
> using: 1) full mutable ast support (through the ast module, used by sympy's
> support); 2) class decorators. (We also have namedtuple.)
>
> Maybe for Jython this is just a matter of isolating the print function? It
> doesn't seem to be used in too many places.
>

Just to chime in here, we have been working on the principle that ipython
0.11 would depend on Python 2.6 or later, and I've been 'modernising' the
code base a bit, to fit in with my Python 3 branch of ipython. I'm sorry if
this makes your life harder. Off the top of my head, though, I think most if
not all of my changes should be compatible with 2.5.

Thomas
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