On 4/14/2014 9:51 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Chris Angelico <[email protected]>:
If you're going to do that, why not just port your code to 3.x and be
done with it? Who has the resources to put hours and hours of dev time
into a 2.8?
Somewhat related. Only yesterday I ported/reimplemented a software
package to python3. On the finish line, I ran into a problem: xlwt
only supports 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3. My system has python3.2.
So I backtracked to python2.7.
So not only do we have a schism between python2 and python3 but there's
one between 3.0 and 3.3. I can't help but wonder if PEP 414 was a
mistake.
The 'mistake' is your OS, whatever it is, not providing 3.3. It is
already so old that it is off bugfix maintenance. Any decent system
should have 3.4 available now.
In any case, I think PEP 393 (new unicode implementation) is reason
enough to jump to 3.3.
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