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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Peter Cacioppi
<peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to think my project (which looks like it is getting funding, hooray!) will advance the glory of Pythonistan simply by doing cool stuff with 2.7. I'll port it someday (unless it flops, which won't happen, because I won't let it).

Which is why I mentioned those helpful __future__ directives, so you
can code now and be better able to port in five years when you feel
that it's important enough to do so. It's a good system.

ChrisA