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[Python-porting] Python 2.4 v/s Python3.2

Vikas Choudhary vikas.choudhary at qlogic.com
Thu Aug 9 16:29:41 CEST 2012 
Are there any modules, those are specific to python 2.x and still not supported by python3.x

-----Original Message-----
From: Lennart Regebro [mailto:regebro at gmail.com]
Sent: 09 August 2012 14:55
To: Vikas Choudhary
Cc: python-porting at python.org
Subject: Re: [Python-porting] Python 2.4 v/s Python3.2

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Vikas Choudhary <vikas.choudhary at qlogic.com> wrote:
> Can someone let me know advantage  of python 3.2 over python 2.4

There are loads and loads of advantages, but many are quite small. I'd say the big ones are:

* Bugfixes. 2.4 is really old.
* The "with" statement
* Ordered Dictionaries
* argparse module
* 0b integer syntax.
* multiprocessing module
* Class decorators
* Conditional expressions
* Sending values to generators
* Dictionary views.
* print is a function
* strings are unicode
* Things are just a little bit more consistent.

Of course, all of these except the last three and a half ones are true for Python 2.7 as well. And if you want to migrate code to Python 3, then you should first migrate to 2.7 anyway.

//Lennart


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