On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 8:56 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Python 3 is clearly taking over the world these days, so it starts feeling > arcane to require Py2 syntax in .pyx files. Increasingly, it means that > people cannot just rename .py files anymore to start optimising them, > because the .py file has a high chance of being written in Py3 syntax. > > Eventually, we will have to switch to Py3 syntax by default in order to > follow what most people are (or will be) used to. > > As a transition, I think we could start warning about cases where the > language level is not set explicitly. If people start marking their code as > being "Cython 2.x code", either with an in-file directive or from their > setup.py, we will have less of a problem in the future to change the default. > > What do you think? Any other ideas, comments, objections?
Perhaps you could clarify something: I tried suggesting a while ago that Sage start using language_level=3 at least when actually building Sage on Python 3. I know this isn't necessary but it just seemed to make logical sense. But Jeroen was convinced it wasn't necessary because, according to him, language_level=3 doesn't really do anything. So what exactly does language_level=3 (or 2) do, such that it would impact porting Python 3 code to Cython? _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
