@#$ send in the middle of the email. Sorry.
Short version: Python 3000 breaks other code as well, some subtly.
This could be bad. One long debugging
session over a missing character on a report due to the change in
representation of a Long could make all
the work of trying for an easy "3to2" conversion tool moot.
I don't know if the list has considered proposals to generalize the
underlying string prefix operator, such that
a user could somehow write a function t"Hello" to be equivalent to
gettext.gettext("Hello"). Has it been
brought up before?
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Charles Merriam
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Lennart,
>
> As you can see by the growing conversation, the matter is a bit old
> and, with age, smells
> bad. I'd like to convince you that it is a bad idea anyway.
>
> The problem is not the gratuitous removal of the leading 'u', but the
> subtle problems when
> the code looks nearly identical. The most likely one to cause
> problems is the new semantics
> of the keys operations. While I haven't read the 3.0 code, this is
> what was stated at Guido's
> last talk.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Lennart Regebro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 3 is not an option, and isn't going to be an option.
> >
> > I know the Python 3000 project started with the attitude of not having
> > any backwards compatibility to be able to start at a blank slate. But
> > since then the compatibility set has increased so far that 3 now could
> > be an option with very little effort.
> >
> > 3 *should* be an option, as well. Loads of software, in particular the
> > whole Plone community, which is a significant part of the Python user
> > base, will struggle very hard if 3 is not an option. But this
> > discussion *has* been beaten to death. 3 should be an option, and it
> > is an option, if u'' gets supported.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting.
> > http://www.colliberty.com/
> > +33 661 58 14 64
> > _______________________________________________
> >
> >
> > 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/charles.merriam%40gmail.com
> >
>
_______________________________________________
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
