-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/2012 06:34 AM, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote: > Il 25 febbraio 2012 21:23, Armin Ronacher > <armin.ronac...@active-4.com> ha scritto: >> Hi, >> >> I just uploaded PEP 414 which proposes am optional 'u' prefix for >> string literals for Python 3. >> >> You can read the PEP online: >> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0414/ >> >> This is a followup to the discussion about this topic here on the >> mailinglist and on twitter/IRC over the last few weeks. >> >> >> Regards, Armin > > If the main point of this proposal is avoiding an explicit 2to3 run > on account of 2to3 being too slow then I'm -1.
The main point is that 2to3 as a strategy for "straddling" python2 and python3 is a showstopper for folks who actually need to straddle (as opposed to one-time conversion): - - 2to3 erformance on large projects sucks. - - 2to3 introduces oddities in testing, coverage, etc. - - 2to3 creates problems with stack traces / bug reports from Py3k users. There are a *lot* of folks who have abandoned 2to3 in favor of "single codebase": the PEP addresses one of the last remaining issues to making such codebases clean and easy to maintain (the sys.exec_info hack is not needed in Python >= 2.6). Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9Lmj4ACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5wBgCfXWUe81vnQh5ptKpGhqLTOL5L oUgAnRrgEUFIq85rgGU6Ky3kN+KzZaqV =CNVl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com