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Backporting Python 2.4 modules

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Fri Nov 19 22:57:06 EST 2004 
Wouldn't it be cool if someone took all the enhanced and new modules in 
Python 2.3 and 2.4, and backported them to Python 2.2?  Maybe all into a 
single distutil-installable package called, say, python24?  Then you 
could do:

from python24 import logging

Lots of the modules have been backported (logging and optparse, for 
instance), but there's no central place to find them.  And some modules 
work fine in older versions, but you wouldn't know.

Since most of the enhancements since Python 2.2 have been in the 
standard library, this would be really helpful.  Especially for those of 
us who want to support older versions of Python, but also want to take 
advantage of newer libraries.

Anyway, hopefully someone things this is a good idea as well and maybe 
tried to do it?  Maybe?  Please?

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Ian Bicking  /  ianb at colorstudy.com  / http://blog.ianbicking.org
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