[Distutils] Comments on Python 3 support for Distribute.

Wolfgang Schnerring ws at gocept.com
Mon Sep 21 14:37:15 CEST 2009


* Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> [2009-09-21 12:04]:
> Great. I've checked in some docs too, I expanded the section on Python
> 3 support and ended up creating a new document, python3.txt. Feedback
> on that is appreciated.

Excellent! I think that covers it pretty well.
 
> Also, feedback on the naming of the keywords is appreciated. Yes, I
> know it's bikeshedding, but I find the current parameter names clunky,
> but have no better ideas.

My favourite colour: use 2to3 as the prefix (consistency helps, I
think), like so:
  2to3_enabled, 2to3_convert_doctests, 2to3_fixers, ...

Wolfgang


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