If you have interest in Python 3 support for Spyder, please read below and provide your thoughts.
The primary goal for Spyder 2.3 is to provide support for Python 2 and Python 3 from a single code base. We are gradually working our way through the remaining bugs, but there are still a few remaining outstanding issues. We'd like your opinions on one of them. As you may be aware, in Python 3 the distinction between text literals as either str or unicode is no more, and all text literals are stored as unicode. From Python 3.0 to Python 3.2, the syntax for declaring unicode literals (like u"foo") was removed from the language, so any use of the u prefix is a syntax error in those versions. For Python 3.3 the language designers decided to allow this syntax again since it makes supporting 2 and 3 from the same code base much simpler. Basically, in Python 3.3, you are allowed to declare either "foo" or u"foo", and both will be stored as Python-3-style text literals. How does this all relate to Spyder? We have developed a general solution for text literals that we can use to support all Python 3 versions if we need to use it, but it creates a little but of clutter in the code. It's certainly makes the code a bit cleaner if we support only Python 3.3. So, in that light, we'd be very interested in knowing how may of you require support for Python 3.0 through 3.2. Again, we are prepared to put in place a solution that will support all of Python 3 if there is demand for these earlier versions, but we didn't want to add the complexity to the code if there simply wasn't any demand for it. On behalf of the Spyder team, cheers, Jed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
