Python 3

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> On 23 June 2010 10:58, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
>>  Many of these cleanups will improve our code even under 2.x.
> 
> On the other hand, Robert's patch has things like
> 
> -except locale.Error, e:
> +except locale.Error:
> +    e = sys.exc_info()[1]
> 
> which is clearly worse, and clearly also the kind of thing that can be
> easily mechanically translated by 2to3.  I wouldn't like to see that
> kind of thing merged until we've decided we really want a single
> codebase that works on both with no translation.
> 

I thought 2to3 doesn't actually handle that. As it expects you've
written python2.6 compatible code which uses:

 except locale.Error as e:

Which we *can't* do for 2.4 or 2.5

John
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