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

[Leif Walsh]

On Feb 2, 2008 10:58 PM,  <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.

Well, then this isn't something to be implemented for python 2, it's
something to consider for python 3 and greater.  I see what you're
saying though, and perhaps in the interim, a shebang fix will suffice.

-- 
Cheers,
Leif