[Python-3000] Python3 - it's awesome (fwd)

[Michael Bayer]

Seconded.  I tried Python 3K for the first time this weekend, spent a  
few hours with the 2to3 tool and we have 80% of SQLAlchemy unit tests  
passing on 3.0 now.   It was far easier than I'd hoped, and the  
decisions made in PY3K make perfect sense to me.  Its a better  
language and I think it will become popular more quickly than we've  
all thought.   Great job to everyone on the list here who's spent many  
months hammering out all the details !

To be determined on our end is how to maintain 2.XX and 3.XX branches,  
either through an automated 2to3 process, or by maintaining separate  
branches.  I'm leaning towards the former, possibly by augmenting 2to3  
with specially annotated comments that give hints to particularly  
thorny sections.   As I go through the code base making post-2to3  
manual fixes, I'm adding in comments denoting the manual changes which  
I hope to turn into....something.

It will be critical that we get DBAPI implementations going soon,  
other than pysqlite I haven't perceived any activity in that area.    
It will be interesting to see if we remain with the maintsays of  
MySQLdb, psycopg2, cx_oracle, or if new 3.0-era contenders come on the  
scene.


On Nov 17, 2008, at 12:10 PM, skip at pobox.com wrote:

> Kudos to the Python 3.0 folks from a poster on comp.lang.python.   
> And it's
> not even been released yet...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Skip
>
>
> From: Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb at gmx.de>
> Date: November 17, 2008 4:30:07 AM EST
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Python3 - it's awesome
>
>
> Hello list,
>
> since I've read so much about Python 3 and ran into some trouble which
> was supposed to be fixed with 3k, I yesterday came around to compile  
> it
> and try it out.
>
> To sum it up: It's awesome. All the promised things like Unicode  
> support
> "just work", all significant changes in the lanugage (try/except- 
> Syntax,
> float division, file opening, print) I've encountered so far made
> absolute sense and it was quite easy to change over (I've been using  
> 2.5
> so far). It was really easy to install it locally as my user (I want  
> to
> try it out some more before I install it system-wide).
>
> So, why I am posting this here: First, thanks to the great work to
> anyone who has contributed. Secondly, I want to encourage anyone who
> hasn't tried Python3 out yet to do - it really is easier than you  
> think
> and you won't be disappointed.
>
> Kind regards,
> Johannes
>
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