On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:34, Vinay Sajip
I'm testing a branch of Python which provides out-of-the-box ability to create virtual enviroments à la virtualenv, and as part of that testing I have to install Distribute in newly created environments a lot. Though normally running 2to3 as part of the Distribute installation is not a big deal, for this testing I'm doing, it does slow things down a little.
While waiting for some tests to finish, I thought I might as well look into whether Distribute could be made to run on 2.x and 3.x from a single code base, thereby avoiding the 2to3 step.
I've made an attempt, and things seem to have gone reasonably smoothly: the conversion is done and all unit tests pass on 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 (my branch).
We still need to support Python 2.4, right? That's a trickier issue. But including six.py might help. //Lennart