<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:02 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@v.loewis.de">martin@v.loewis.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> The main reason I want a long 2.x series is that I believe it would more<br>
> easily allow us infrastructure folks to drop support for *older*<br>
> versions. With this big 2.x->3.x chasm, I can't really see an end in<br>
> sight for Twisted using Python 2.x as its _source_ language, translating<br>
> with 2to3.<br>
<br>
Well, 3to2 would then be an option for you: use Python 3 as the source<br>
language.<br></blockquote><div><br>A migration path which would be made all the more compelling with the addition of the nonlocal keyword to 2.7 ;-)<br><br> Mike<br></div><br></div>