Re: What do you do when a library is outdated?

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On 7/29/2013 12:14 PM, Matt wrote:
> I'm fairly new to python but have experience in other languages. What
> do you generally do when a library is outdated? I asked a question on
> a few forums and everyone has been pointing me to Mechanize, but it
> will not work with 3.3
>
> What do you do?

Update it yourself, ask someone else to update it, or use something else.

Or regress to an older Python that it will work with.



-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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What do you do when a library is outdated? Matt <mattgraves7@gmail.com> - 2013-07-29 09:14 -0700
  Re: What do you do when a library is outdated? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-29 17:34 +0100
    Re: What do you do when a library is outdated? Matt <mattgraves7@gmail.com> - 2013-07-29 09:40 -0700
  Re: What do you do when a library is outdated? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-07-29 13:12 -0400

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