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[Python-Dev] Proposal for new 2to23 tool

Jan Claeys lists at janc.be
Mon Nov 12 04:24:34 CET 2007 
Op zondag 11-11-2007 om 17:19 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef Brett
Cannon:
> On Nov 11, 2007 4:00 PM, Graham Horler <graham.horler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have been developing in Python since 1.5, and now have to support 2.1
> > as a minimum version.  I do like to keep my code runnable on newer
> > versions however, and am considering the feasability of forward
> > compatibility with Python 3.0.
> >
> > I also notice the Leo[1] project could use some assistance with forward
> > compatibility.
> >
> > So I was wondering if anyone else had a need for a 2to23.py tool to help
> > make code compatible with 3.0 but not break it for 2.x.
> 
> What exactly are you proposing?  We already have 2to3
> (http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/2to3/) for source-to-source
> translation from 2.x to 3.0.

Graham wants to convert his code such that it works on both Python 2.x
(probably even early versions of it?) & Python 3.x.  Not 2 instances of
code, but one source that works on both 2.x and 3.x...


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Jan Claeys
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