On 4 June 2016 at 12:34, Neil Schemenauer <nas-pythonideas@arctrix.com> wrote:
On 2016-06-04, Paul Moore wrote:
Who do you propose develops that version? Will you do so to help the next group of people in your situation?
I'm proposing to help. Here is a very early start:
Cool!
But the people who've asked for such a thing in the past have apparently never been sufficiently convinced it was a worthwhile effort to put their own time into it.
Given the choice of porting your code to Python 3 or developing this transitional Python to help you, it is easy to see why people choose the former option. However, if you look at the millions of lines of Python 2 code that is yet to be ported, I think the idea has some merit.
Sounds like you know where you want to go with this, I hope you get the interest to keep the project going. I can't say I'd recommend people go this route myself, but maybe that's because I'm not looking at projects on the scale you are - typically the things I've been involved in haven't been that hard to port (I work mostly on libraries, and working in the common Python 2/3 subset, with the aid of libraries like six, has been a perfectly practical solution for me). Paul