-----Original Message----- From: Python-ideas [mailto:python-ideas-bounces+tritium- list=sdamon.com@python.org] On Behalf Of Neil Schemenauer Sent: Saturday, June 4, 2016 4:27 AM To: python-ideas@python.org Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] Smoothing transition to Python 3
On 2016-06-04, tritium-list@sdamon.com wrote:
In fact most of the things you list here are the GOOD ideas that python 3 enforces that reduces bugs when avoided in python 2.
Sure, and I'm not proposing that standard Python 3.x change the behavior.
What would actually help the transition, in my world-view at least is
* A bytes type like the string type in python 2 (*without implicit conversion!*) There are too many real world use cases that the bytes type makes painful, including anything dealing with networking.
The Python 3 bytes type should gain whatever features it needs to make things not painful. The %-based formating in 3.5 is a big one. Is there something else you miss?
b'Foo'[0] returning b'F' instead of the int 70
* an alias to the string type named 'unicode' (this just makes polyglot a whole heck of a lot less stressful... yes I do this myself, it's annoying, if it was there by default, like bytes is in 2.7, it would make life a lot easier. One just never just never references `str`)
Maybe too late now but there should have been 'unicode', 'basestring' as aliases for 'str'.
* a "magic" mapping from old to new module names. In my experience, this is actually a bigger pain than it looks.
I would like to add this to my "pragmatic" version.
The general response was the theme of the entire python 3 transition story: "I don't see the value added."
Yes, and here we are. Python 3 is not yet winning and I'm not sure it will. I believe Dropbox, Facebook and Google are all still using Python 2. If porting code was so easy, why are they not moved over? I see VMWare released some new IoT SDK:
https://github.com/vmware/liota
This is new code, written this year. It is not compatible with Python 3 as far as I see. I can't understand why people don't see we have a problem.
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