On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Jim Mooney <cybervigila...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I still sometimes type input instead of that annoying raw_input and get a
> weird error.
Here's a nifty tip to get around that - and to eliminate one more thing
you'd have to change later, if you switch back to 3. Put this near the top
of your code (before any calls to input()):
try:
input = raw_input
except NameError:
pass
Now you can just use input(), and it will have the 3.x behavior in either
version.
I'll be glad when this all settles out, but Py 3 has been out awhile and an
> awful lot seems to only be for 2.7
>
I suspect it's going to be like this for a while yet. The differences
between 2.x and 3 _seem_ superficial, but some of them are pretty
fundamental - so packages that do anything non-trivial really need major
rewrites, and then they need to be maintained for both versions. It's sort
of analogous to writing a native iOS app, and porting it as a native
Android app, and maintaining both. It can be done, but it requires a lot
of effort and usually more than a one-man dev team.
I saw a quote a long time ago; I'd love to attribute it properly, but...:
"God created the world in just seven days. But then, He had no installed
base."
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