Python 3

[Ben Finney]

Russel Winder <russel at russel.org.uk> writes:

> On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 16:11 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> > One of the major points of this thread and previous ones is that we
> > are not prepared to give up 2.4 support yet. I do realize that it
> > would be easier to support 3.x if we dropped 2.4 but we're not going
> > there yet.
>
> As far as I am aware you have to go to 2.6 and drop all pre-2.6 idioms
> to have any chance of 2to3 and 3to2 being useful.  With 2.4 and 2.5
> factors in the equation, then looking at 3 is for the future --
> certainly this is the view in the SCons team.

+1.

I think Python 2.4 ↔ 3.1 is too broad a range to try supporting from a
single code base. This is exacerbated by the fact that Python 2.4 and
2.5 are not receiving upstream support, and Python 2.6 will soon be
receiving very little attention upstream (once Python 2.7 is released).

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Ben Finney
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