Correction, Python 3.3 is available in Ubuntu and any other Linux version, it's just not available through apt-get
On Saturday, June 29, 2013 8:22:31 PM UTC+1, ufechner wrote: > > Hello, > > I just checked an Ubuntu 12.04 there is only Python 3.2.3 available. > This could be a reason to support it until the next Ubuntu LTS version > is released, which is planned for 04-2014. > > Best regards: > > Uwe Fechner > > Am 06/29/2013 06:52 PM, schrieb Jed Ludlow: > > 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] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:>. > > > 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.
