Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'url:pypi': 0.03; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'compiler': 0.07; '2to3': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'url:github': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; '2.7': 0.14; 'language.': 0.14; 'windows': 0.15; 'compatible.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'shot.': 0.16; 'walzer': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'code.': 0.18; '(the': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; '---': 0.24; "i've": 0.25; '15,': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'kevin': 0.30; 'said,': 0.30; 'especially': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; '3.x': 0.31; 'run': 0.32; 'url:python': 0.33; 'but': 0.35; 'url:org': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'though,': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'free': 0.61; 'url:3': 0.61; 'viruses': 0.61; 'protection': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'benefit': 0.68; 'antivirus': 0.68; 'promise': 0.68; 'jul': 0.74; 'hassle': 0.84; 'headaches,': 0.84; 'hit.': 0.84; 'python-dev': 0.84; 'upstream': 0.84; 'promised': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Python 3 is killing Python Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:44:34 +0100 References: <57ajo9poljjre4c4ig0n0ss8kph8k78lp0@4ax.com> <5389cb53$0$29978$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <99b7b2a2-7521-42d7-a5a0-1a35d4d5b922@googlegroups.com> <53C4A454.9010600@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-29-12.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 140715-0, 15/07/2014), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 36 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1405439081 news.xs4all.nl 2910 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:47689 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:74492 On 15/07/2014 15:31, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote: > >> I've stayed with Python 2.7 because I've seen no benefit in 3.x that >> outweighs the hassle of going through my code line by line to make it >> compatible. > > And that's fine! The python-dev team has promised that 2.7 will > continue to be supported; that means some headaches, especially on > Windows (the Python 2.7 support will long outlast upstream Microsoft > support for the compiler it's built on), but it's a promise that you > can continue to run your 2.7 code. > > That said, though, I would advise you to give 2to3 a shot. You never > know, it might do exactly what you need right out-of-the-box and give > you a 3.x-compatible codebase in one hit. > Or any one of https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six/1.7.3 https://github.com/mitsuhiko/python-modernize http://python-future.org/ https://github.com/nandoflorestan/nine -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com