[Python-porting] [ANN] Six, utilities for supporting Python 2 and 3 with the same code base

[Benjamin Peterson]

2010/6/30 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 13:57, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
>> I've just released for the first time six, a set of helpers for
>> maintaining a code base on Python 2 and 3 simultaneously. It includes
>> fake byte and unicode literals and wrappers for syntax changes between
>> the languages. The license is MIT.
>>
>> You can download it on PyPi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/six
>> or read the documentation: http://packages.python.org/six/
>>
>> Bugs can be reported to the Launchpad page: http://bugs.launchpad.net/python-six
>
> I was actually thinking about doing this; you beat me to it! =)
>
> Looks good overall. Only three suggestions. One is that the
> documentation for const is a little confusing; I would move the
> example to the end as I thought that dispatch_types was an actual
> function in the module instead of just example usage.

Moved, thank you.

>
> Two, is there a need for a function to get the currently raised
> exception (especially without the traceback to prevent accidental
> circular loops)? Since that part of the syntax changed it would
> probably be good to have a function to call which returns the raised
> exception. Don't remember if the 'with' statement cleans up its
> variables, but if it does then the traceback object could be exposed
> on a context manager w/o leaking.

I believe sys.exc_info()[:2] is still the correct way in both Python versions.

>
> And lastly, a link back to the PyPI page from the packages.python.org
> pages would be good in case the docs end up ranking higher in searches
> than the PyPI page.

Done.



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Regards,
Benjamin