py3k s***s

Ivan Illarionov ivan.illarionov at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 12:30:00 EDT 2008


On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:16:35 -0700, Aaron Watters wrote:

> The big deal is that I would love to see Django become the standard
> platform for web development, for example.  That will be much less
> likely if 60% of the contributed tools for Django don't work for Python
> 3000 and 20% don't work for Python 2.6. Expecting volunteer contributors
> to support both is not realistic.  It's hard enough to support one
> adequately.  Even if you could hope to support both with the same code,
> just testing in both environments would be onerous.

You shouldn't worry about Django. Python 3000 port has already started 
[1]. And the assumption that "to support both is not realistic" may be 
wrong [2] in this case.

[1] http://wiki.python.org/moin/PortingDjangoTo3k
[2] http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/msg/91f399820ee07ce5

-- 
Ivan



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