[Numpy-discussion] Porting strategy for py3k

[Robert Kern]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:52, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
>> Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:38:21 +0900, David Cournapeau kirjoitti:
>> [clip]
>>>     I looked more in detail on what would be needed to port numpy to
>>> py3k. In particular, I was interested at the possible strategies to keep
>>> one single codebase for both python 2.x and python 3.x. The first step
>>> is to remove all py3k warnings reported by python 2.6. A couple of
>>> recurrent problems
>>>     - reduce is removed in py3k
>>>     - print is removed
>>
>> Print is not removed, just changed to a function. So,
>>
>>        print("foo")
>
> Yes, as reduce, they are still available, but not as builtins anymore.
> But replacing print is not as easy as reduce. Things like print
> "yoyo", a do not work, for example.

Doesn't the 2to3 tool do this conversion for you?

-- 
Robert Kern

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