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Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward

From Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward
Date 2014-05-25 14:03 -0400
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <roy-34168F.14034325052014@news.panix.com> (permalink)
References <mailman.10254.1400876180.18130.python-list@python.org> <roy-F214F1.19572423052014@news.panix.com> <mailman.10285.1401009964.18130.python-list@python.org>

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In article <mailman.10285.1401009964.18130.python-list@python.org>,
 Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> wrote:

> Ubuntu provides a (partial) Py3 port of boto.

As long as the part that's ported includes all the bits of boto we 
currently need, plus all the bits of boto we haven't yet discovered we 
need, but will sometime in the future, we're good :-)

> And I don't really see why you would consider fabric a dependency 
> that keeps you from switching to Py3. In many cases, you can just 
> keep running it in Py2 as you did before.

In theory, that's possible.  In practice, it would mean having to 
maintain two different versions of Python, and test everything against 
both.  That adds a lot of complexity, for very little value.

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How keep Python 3 moving forward Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-23 21:16 +0100
  Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-05-23 19:57 -0400
    Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-05-23 17:27 -0700
      Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-05-23 21:12 -0400
    Python 3 support for Fabric (was: How keep Python 3 moving forward) Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-05-24 14:29 +1000
    Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward - suds & Python 3 Jurko Gospodnetić <jurko.gospodnetic@pke.hr> - 2014-05-25 10:54 +0200
    Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2014-05-25 11:25 +0200
      Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-05-25 14:03 -0400
        Build tools, and Python 3 dependencies (was: How keep Python 3 moving forward) Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-05-26 13:16 +1000
          Re: Build tools, and Python 3 dependencies (was: How keep Python 3 moving forward) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-05-26 08:44 -0400
            Re: Build tools, and Python 3 dependencies (was: How keep Python 3 moving forward) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-27 02:59 +0000
              Re: Build tools, and Python 3 dependencies (was: How keep Python 3 moving forward) Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-26 20:54 -0700
            Re: Build tools, and Python 3 dependencies (was: How keep Python 3 moving forward) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-27 03:06 +0000
  Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-05-24 00:13 -0700
    Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward blindanagram <noone@nowhere.net> - 2014-05-24 15:35 +0100
      Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-24 12:59 +0300
        Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-24 03:40 -0700
        Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2014-05-24 09:03 -0700
          Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-24 22:49 +0300
            Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-24 21:11 +0100
            Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-24 20:27 -0400
              Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-05-24 23:43 -0700
                Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-05-25 08:21 -0700
                Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-25 10:38 -0700
                Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-25 18:17 +0000
                Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-05-25 13:56 -0500
                Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-05-25 13:18 -0700
                Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-05-25 11:34 -0700
                Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-25 21:24 +0100
                Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-05-25 18:22 -0400
                Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-26 00:09 +0100
                Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-05-26 07:03 -0700
                Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-26 10:24 +1000
                Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-05-25 17:32 -0700
                Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-26 01:52 +1000
                Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-25 17:32 +0100
                Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-05-25 18:20 -0400
                Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-25 21:32 -0400
        Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-05-24 12:08 -0700
        Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2014-05-24 21:44 +0200
      Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com> - 2014-05-24 11:02 -0700
      Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2014-05-25 20:45 -0400
    Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-24 14:06 +0000

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