[Python-3000] Making 2to3 installable

[Collin Winter]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Cool! Is the next plan to make lib2to3 part of the stdlib in 2.6 and 3.0?

That would be fine by me. I'll try to work up some better docs than
just a README.

>  On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 2:47 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>  > After talking to Collin, I just committed a change to
>  >  2to3 to make it installable as an executable script
>  >  called "2to3".
>  >
>  >  To do so, I had to wrap all the top-level modules
>  >  into a package, and move the fixes and tests into
>  >  that package. Lacking a better name, I called the
>  >  library lib2to3. I also install pgen2 as a separate
>  >  package.
>  >
>  >  In the process, I had to change all the imports,
>  >  and I did that by using relative imports. As
>  >  a consequence, 2to3 currently won't work on
>  >  Python 2.4.
>  >
>  >  Regards,
>  >  Martin
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