I don't require support for 3.0-3.2. Jerry On Jun 29, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Jed Ludlow <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > -- 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.
