Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.etla.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.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; '"this': 0.03; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'versions,': 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; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; 'discussion.': 0.16; 'guess.': 0.16; 'hazard': 0.16; 'porting': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'remembered': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'code.': 0.18; 'discussion': 0.18; 'header :User-Agent:1': 0.23; '2.x': 0.24; 'skip': 0.24; 'looks': 0.24; 'developers': 0.25; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'point': 0.28; 'leave': 0.29; 'related': 0.29; 'subject:list': 0.30; 'url:mailman': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'author,': 0.31; 'developers.': 0.31; 'anyone': 0.31; 'open': 0.33; 'subject:mailing': 0.33; 'url:python': 0.33; 'programmers': 0.33; 'core': 0.34; 'created': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'doubt': 0.36; 'leads': 0.36; 'url:listinfo': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'list': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'rather': 0.38; 'explain': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'enough': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'url:mail': 0.40; 'discuss': 0.62; 'such': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'between': 0.67; 'believe': 0.68; 'warrant': 0.68; 'garner': 0.84; 'mature': 0.84; 'perspective,': 0.84; 'received:89': 0.85 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Porting mailing list underused? Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:31:13 +0000 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-89-240-171-210.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: 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: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1389389510 news.xs4all.nl 2976 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:55776 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:63668 On 10/01/2014 20:38, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> Anyone in the >> know who can explain this phenomenon? > > I don't think I can explain it authoritatively, but I can hazard a > guess. Skimming the archives sorted by author, it looks like most/all > the correspondents are Python core developers. That leads me to > believe this was a list created for the core Python developers to > discuss issues related to porting tools such as 2to3 or six. I doubt > it was intended for Python programmers to get help porting their own > code. From the Python core development perspective, I think automated > porting tools are likely pretty mature at this point and don't warrant > a lot of discussion. > > Skip > If the dumbo OP had remembered to say that https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-porting states rather vaguely "This list is to contain discussion of porting Python code between versions, mainly from Python 2.x to 3.x." it might have helped garner more answers. Still, if we leave the list open for long enough we'll all be able to discuss porting python 2.x to python 4.x :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence