[Python-3000] [Python-ideas] Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

[Bill Janssen]

> skip at pobox.com wrote:
> >     Leif> There is already an idiom with other packages (pygtk etc.) that
> >     Leif> suggests syntax like
> >
> >     Leif> try:
> >     Leif>     python.require('3.1')
> >     Leif> except:
> >     Leif>     print('Some warning about version incompatibility')
> >     Leif>     exit(1)
> >
> > It won't work in this case.  Compilation of the module might well fail
> > because of Python2/Python3 syntax differences.
> >
> >   
> Ah, of course. Scratch my last email. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> T

Does that mean you'd need a new keyword, something like

     requireversion 3.1

Bill