June 4, 2016
11:34 a.m.
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: https://github.com/nascheme/ppython
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. Neil