<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Wiadomość napisana przez Stephan Richter w dniu 8 gru 2011, o godz. 12:05:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>It is somewhat naive to think that you can just tell <br>everyone to upgrade to Python 2.7 and then use the future import. Having to <br>change all that code can also be a big bug magnet.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A big bug magnet is using a Python version that is not getting any fixes whatsoever. When I'm backporting stuff from Python 3, I'm targeting 2.6+ because it's still somewhat supported by us. What's more important though is that there were tremendous changes in that release in terms of bridging the gap between Python 2 and 3.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm wondering why developers inflict so much impediment to support a Python version that's 5+ years old and was replaced by a newer one in virtually every operating system. Recent versions of Mac OS X, RedHat and Debian all sport Python 2.6+. It seems only GAE and Jython are stuck on Python 2.5.</div><div><br></div><div>Python 2.6 has ABCs, supports b'' (and even has a "bytes" alias for the str type), forward compatibility __futures__ (print_function, unicode_literals, division and absolute_imports), "except Exception as e", etc.</div><div><br></div><div>The thing we did miss was making sure the std lib doesn't break when unicode_literals are used. And that's a bummer.</div></div><br><div>
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