On Nov 12, 2007 12:50 AM, Graham Horler <graham.horler@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12 Nov 2007, 03:24:34, Jan Claeys wrote:
Op zondag 11-11-2007 om 17:19 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef Brett Cannon:
On Nov 11, 2007 4:00 PM, Graham Horler <graham.horler@gmail.com> wrote:
I have been developing in Python since 1.5, and now have to support 2.1 as a minimum version. I do like to keep my code runnable on newer versions however, and am considering the feasability of forward compatibility with Python 3.0.
I also notice the Leo[1] project could use some assistance with forward compatibility.
So I was wondering if anyone else had a need for a 2to23.py tool to help make code compatible with 3.0 but not break it for 2.x.
What exactly are you proposing? We already have 2to3 (http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/2to3/) for source-to-source translation from 2.x to 3.0.
Graham wants to convert his code such that it works on both Python 2.x (probably even early versions of it?) & Python 3.x. Not 2 instances of code, but one source that works on both 2.x and 3.x...
Absolutely
I don't believe that's possible. There are enough key differences between the two that having the same body of code work in both 2.x and 3.x would require an extensive, complicated runtime support system that no-one has all(the ability, the time, the motivation) to implement. And of course, even if you had such a system, the generated code wouldn't look anything like well-formed Python and would be a maintenance nightmare. Collin Winter