I'm sure that the main problem is that people don't search. Surprisingly, it's often easier to complain "there is no X" than to try to search for a solution to X. On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 11:23:45 -0600 Brian Curtin <brian@python.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 3:08 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 5:20 AM, John Yeuk Hon Wong <gokoproject@gmail.com> wrote:
I think it helps Luca and many others (including myself) if there is a reference of the difference between 2.7 and Python 3.3+.
Not specifically for 2.7 and 3.3, no. This is a fairly complete list:
http://python3porting.com/differences.html
There are PEPs and books, but is there any such long list of references?
If not, should we start investing in one? I know the basic one such as xrange and range, items vs iteritems, izip vs zip that sort of uniform syntax/library inclusion difference.
If there is such reference available?
I'm honestly despairing that people still don't know that there is a free book on the topic. I have no idea how to increase the knowledge on this point.
I think we collectively need better SEO, or something like that. Python 3 would be in a better place if people actually knew the current state of things, versus asking people on "Hacker News".
Perhaps there should be a porting guide as a prominent chapter in http://docs.python.org/3/ ?
The (incognito) Google query "porting from python 2 to 3" pops up this as the first result:
http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/pyporting.html
2nd place is the wiki.python.org page; 3 & 4 are from Lennart's book.
So the SEO is fine, it seems - at least in this case. Similar queries provide similar results. If anyone comes up with a resonable query that gives bad results, we can do some lightweight SEO on it by adding a few links here and there.
Eli
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