On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Bill Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > I totally agree with your logic for migrating to Python 2.6. However, > this would be somewhat problematic for me. > > My Coopr software relies on PLY as well as other software packages > that only support Python 2.5 (specifically, the Python interfaces for > CPLEX and GUROBI). So, a migration of PLY 4.0 to Python 2.6 would > force me to stick with an older version of PLY. :( This wouldn't be > a big problem, though, since the current version of PLY seems to work > fine. > > --Bill > > > On Oct 13, 7:45 am, David Beazley <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's been a little while since there was a new release of PLY, but a number >> of minor bug reports have surfaced. So, I'm thinking about making a >> PLY-3.4 release sometime before the end of October. If anyone has any >> issues and/or feature requests, please post them here or submit to the ply >> bug tracker. >> >> On a slightly different note, I'm thinking about dropping support for older >> Python versions (only supporting Python 2.6 or newer). I probably won't do >> this in the PLY-3.4 release, but I might introduce a PLY-4.0 release that >> requires a modern version. The main reason for this is that I want to >> take advantage of newer Python features such as generators, generator >> expressions, etc. I also want to use syntax that more seamlessly makes PLY >> work with Python 2/3 (the "as" form of exceptions, print function, etc.). >> If anyone has any thoughts about this, they should let me know. >> >> Cheers, >> Dave > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ply-hack" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/ply-hack?hl=en. > >
Not sure if you're considering doing more than bugfixes and dropping Python support here, but lately I've been thinking about what a more explicit parser API might look like, here's the result: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/276240/ Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero "Code can always be simpler than you think, but never as simple as you want" -- Me -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ply-hack" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ply-hack?hl=en.
