Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Proposed Python 3.0 schedule

2008-10-08 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On 10/7/08, Mark Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # This is a Python 3.x script to execute a python 2.x script by 2to3'ing it. > import sys > from lib2to3.refactor import RefactoringTool, get_fixers_from_package > > fixers = get_fixers_from_package('lib2to3.fixes') > options = dict(doctests_onl

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Proposed Python 3.0 schedule

2008-10-07 Thread Mark Hammond
> at such a script, which I promptly stopped looking at as soon as it > worked Which is quite obvious really given that: > # nuke ourselves from argv > del sys.argv[1] is removing the wrong value! Mark ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.or

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Proposed Python 3.0 schedule

2008-10-07 Thread Mark Hammond
> > * Better support for 2to3 in distutils (specifically, the support in > > build_py is stale, plus 'build_scripts' and 'install_data' should > > convert > > .py files to py3k syntax.) > > Please do create a bug report for that. It sounds like it's easy to > fix. Yeah, build_py is fairly easy to

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Proposed Python 3.0 schedule

2008-10-07 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> More specifically, I think 2to3 is shaping up well. pywin32 is taking the > approach of "port where possible, but keep in py2x syntax and convert at > 'setup.py' time" and this is working out fairly well I can't say how glad I am that you say that. It supports lib2to3 being a proper library, de

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Proposed Python 3.0 schedule

2008-10-07 Thread Mark Hammond
[when 2 mailing lists are not enough... :-] > I'm seeing that people are just starting to download and play with 3.0. > I expect that we'll start getting more feedback on conversion issues +1 from this direction too. pywin32 has recently started looking seriously at py3k, and while things are in