On 7/15/07, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In order to have a codebase run in 2.x and 3.x, via automated translated by > 2to3, there should be some "exclusion feature" for single lines that tells > the refactorer not to touch those lines. > > For example, if you have some object that still has an iteritems() method and > keeps it, it'll have to stay the same during translation. > Same goes, e.g., for methods named next(), has_key() etc. > > Most obvious would be a special comment, something like > > for x in curiousobject.iteritems(): # 2to3:keep > foo(x) > > Does that make sense?
Absolutely. (Were you in the audience of my keynote at EuroPython? I believe I briefly mentioned the need for such a feature there. :-) Can't say I have a good feeling for how to implement it yet, but it should definitely be possible. Precise syntax to be done. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
