[IPython-dev] Status of py3k ipython

[Thomas Kluyver]

On 4 October 2010 05:26, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for figuring this out, but there are a couple issues.  We actually
> need the buffer code to work on *both* Python 2 and 3, so commenting things
> out doesn't work.  It does help find the real issues elsewhere, though.
>  That file, as it started in mpi4py, works on Pythons 2.3-3.2, but I have
> clearly broken some of them when I made my adjustments bringing it into
> pyzmq.  I will work these issues out.
>

I quite agree, but never having touched Cython code before, I wanted to get
it working before trying to resolve compatibility.

Where Cython is converting python functions to C code, it will create
preprocessor if/else sections where Python 2 and Python 3 API code needs to
be different. However, if we cimport API functions (PyString... etc.), it
will try to link those, whichever environment it is compiled in.


> As for the PyUnicode instead of PyString: We actually want to enforce
> PyBytes in Python 3, not PyUnicode.  It's critically important that pyzmq
> never has to deal with Python Unicode objects except through _unicode
> convenience methods, due to heinous memory performance issues I won't get
> into here (but have gotten into plenty with Brian and Fernando).
>

OK, I'll get onto that this evening. In fact, if we use PyBytes, it looks
like we can make a version that works for 2.6 and 3.x, although I think that
wouldn't work for anything before 2.6.

Thomas
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