[IronPython] Wishlist for next version: from __future__ import print_function

[Curt Hagenlocher]

These sound good.  Can you file them on CodePlex, please?

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Vernon Cole <vernondcole at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some time back contributors to this forum were invited to suggest which
> Python3k and Python 2.6 functions were most important to implement in the
> next IronPython.
>
> I downloaded Python 2.6 and Python3.0RC2 today and started hacking at
> making adodbapi work in Python 3.  (Now that it works in Iron, py3k seems
> like the next logical thing.)  Conversion to Python2.6 is the first baby
> step.  Roger Upole has already done some of the work, so I picked up his
> branch off CVS.
>
> I quickly discovered that the first thing I need for each module is to add:
>
> from __future__ import print_function
> from __future__ import unicode_literals
>
> This makes IronPython immediatly error out, of course.
>
> The unicode_literals would be a simple "pass" statement for IronPython,
> which already defaults that way.
> The convertion of "print" from a statement to a function affects every
> Python program down to "Hello, World". IMHO it would be the most important
> thing to implement.
> --
> Vernon Cole
>
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