Francesco Cosoleto <cosol...@gmail.com> wrote: > The import statement isn't executed due to syntax error. Isn't that the > problem? > > Besides wikipedia module is a library so it hasn't to close Python. > > gettext probably it's a good idea to improve bots compatibility with 3.0.
The syntax error will not occur if Python exits before importing. Python 3.0 includes major changes that are not backwards-compatible, so it would be hard to make the framework 3.0-compatible. For example, the u'string' syntax is no longer valid, because all strings are now Unicode by default; also, many modules no longer function in Python 3.0. Maintaining two versions of the code (one for Python 2.x and one for 3.0) would involve a lot of duplication of effort for little gain, since Python 3.0 is not widely adopted yet. I think a warning that pywikipediabot is not Python 3.0-compatible may be better for now, unless someone wants to dedicate their free time to maintaining a Python 3.0 branch. -- Yours cordially, Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild) _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list Pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
