On Jan 12, 9:33 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> wrote:
> > Well, this is for my Python (actually, beginning programmer) writings, at > > http://tinyurl.com/programmingbookP3 > Thanks for writing this book. I just had a quick look at the beginning of it where you write: === As of this writing two main variants of the Python language are in use, namely Python 2.x and Python 3.x (versions 3.0 and greater). Mostly they’re the same but the effect of e.g. the / division operator changed in 3.0, so in practice it’s hopeless to try to create programs that work the same – or even just work – with both variants. === Notwithstanding your experience (finding a bug in wave.py), this statement is false. There are plenty of non-trivial applications that have been ported so that they work "as is" with both Python 2.x and Python 3.x. If you do a google search, I am sure that you can find many examples proving this point. For example, you may want to read: http://mail.mems-exchange.org/durusmail/qp/441/ .... or try out Crunchy (http://code.google.com/p/crunchy). It may be required to isolate some small parts and do conditional imports ... but this is fairly straightforward to do if one writes a new application. André -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
