<div dir="ltr">You could also distribute distribute as a wheel distribution. The format is designed to let you do your 2to3 runs ahead of time in addition to the compiling-of-C-extensions that people think of first.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Tres Seaver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tseaver@palladion.com" target="_blank">tseaver@palladion.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 02/26/2013 04:20 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 09:17:29AM +0000, Paul Moore wrote:<br>
>> On 26 February 2013 06:21, Chris Withers <<a href="mailto:chris@simplistix.co.uk">chris@simplistix.co.uk</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>> File "./setuptools/dist.py", line 103 except ValueError, e: ^<br>
>>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax<br>
>>><br>
>>> Can other people reproduce this? When was that Python 3<br>
>>> incompatible except clause introduced?<br>
>><br>
>> I quite often see this, it's usually because something that pip is<br>
>> doing (building the metadata/dependency stuff, the actual code<br>
>> build is fine) is failing to run 2to3.<br>
>><br>
>> I can't offer anything in the way of a fix, I'm afraid...<br>
><br>
> How hard would it be to rewrite distribute to use a common language<br>
> subset instead of relying on 2to3?<br>
<br>
</div>The sheer number of developer hours saved by not waiting for the 2to3 run<br>
every time a Py3k virtualenv is created should dwarf whatever effort is<br>
involve. Any volunteers to "take on for the team"?<br>
<br>
<br>
Tres.<br>
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