It's in the same spirit as what I proposed in my answer to Guido's crazy
idea, but set at a different level (in code instead of in setup.py in my
proposal).
I think it belongs to the same discussion, so I'm copying it here (sorry
for the inconvenience if you already read it there):
Le 16/05
On 17May2018 10:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 08:02:47PM +0100, MRAB wrote:
Instead of verbatim identifiers, how about a special comment giving the
Python version in which the file was written?
There could then be a tool similar to 2to3 that converts the file to a
more rec
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 08:02:47PM +0100, MRAB wrote:
> Instead of verbatim identifiers, how about a special comment giving the
> Python version in which the file was written?
>
> There could then be a tool similar to 2to3 that converts the file to a
> more recent version of Python that might ha
Instead of verbatim identifiers, how about a special comment giving the
Python version in which the file was written?
There could then be a tool similar to 2to3 that converts the file to a
more recent version of Python that might have new reserved words. In
most cases the new file would merely