We would lost our backward compatibility for our scrips. There are some bot owner running py 2.4 and I really would be glad if we could deny our support for this version. First let's merge to the rewrite branch based on 2.5 and let the old stuff behind us. I guess this will be done next year ;)
xqt ----- Original Nachricht ---- Von: Bináris <[email protected]> An: Pywikipedia discussion list <[email protected]> Datum: 06.10.2010 17:57 Betreff: [Pywikipedia-l] Why not Python 3? > Hi! > > It is obvious, that we will have to let Python 2.x to go one day. Now the > developers have been working on Pywikipedia 2 for a long time, and are > looking forward to release it. But what then? How long will itt work? > > In the past weeks I was dealing with Python very much, and I have ideas on > 2 > vs. 3. I tried to guess the reason not to use Python 3. As far as I see, > the > main problem is with the big quantity of u"..."s. But I they can probably > be > converted py the 2to3 module. So what is the main reason to keep 2.x? > > -- > Bináris > > > -------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
