OK, this seems weird to me:
For what it’s worth, I almost exclusively write 2/3 compatible code (and
that’s
with the “easy” subset of 2.6+ and either 3.2+ or 3.3+)
ouch.
However the way it used to work
is that the newest version, with all the new features, would quickly become
the
On Dec 15, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Chris Barker chris.bar...@noaa.gov wrote:
OK, this seems weird to me:
For what it’s worth, I almost exclusively write 2/3 compatible code (and
that’s
with the “easy” subset of 2.6+ and either 3.2+ or 3.3+)
ouch.
However the way it used to work
is
On Dec 14, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Barry, Petr, any of the other folks working on distro level C extension
ports, perhaps one of you would be willing to consider an update to the C
extension porting guide to be more in line with Brett's latest version of
the Python level porting
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Chris Barker chris.bar...@noaa.gov
wrote:
Are you primarily writing packages for others to use? if so, then yes. But
I wonder how many people are in that camp? Don't most of us spend most of
our time writing our own purpose-built code?
That might be a nice
Mark Roberts wiz...@gmail.com writes:
So, I'm the guy that used the hate word in relation to writing 2/3
compliant code. And really, as a library maintainer/writer I do hate
writing 2/3 compatible code.
You're unlikely to get disagreement on that. I certainly concur.
The catch is, at the
Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au writes:
Rather, the claim is that *if* one's code base doesn't migrate to Python
3, it will be decreasingly supported by the PSF and the Python community
at large.
The PSF doesn't support any versions of Python. We have effectively no
involvement
Alex Gaynor alex.gay...@gmail.com writes:
Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au writes:
Rather, the claim is that *if* one's code base doesn't migrate to
Python 3, it will be decreasingly supported by the PSF and the
Python community at large.
The PSF doesn't support any versions of
On 16 December 2014 at 13:08, Mark Roberts wiz...@gmail.com wrote:
The whole situation is made worse because I *KNOW* that Python 3 is a better
language than Python 2, but that it doesn't *MATTER* because Python 2 is
what people are - and will be - using for the foreseeable future. It's
On 16 December 2014 at 16:03, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Alex Gaynor alex.gay...@gmail.com writes:
Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au writes:
Rather, the claim is that *if* one's code base doesn't migrate to
Python 3, it will be decreasingly supported by the PSF and
