[Python-3000] Python 3.0 Porting Strategies

[Eric Smith]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Charles Merriam wrote:
>> How can I write the greatest common denominator of this code:
>>
>> print "Hello World!"  # yes, that needs to be Unicode.
> 
> Something like
> 
>    from __future__ import unicode_literals
>    from py3k_compat import Print
> 
>    Print("Hello World!") # yes, that indeed is Unicode.
> 
> given suitable implementations of py3k_compat for
> each environment.
> 

Am I missing something here?  What's wrong with:

$ ./python.exe
Python 2.6a1+ (trunk:61978, Mar 27 2008, 12:48:39)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> from __future__ import unicode_literals
 >>> from __future__ import print_function
 >>> print('hello, world')
hello, world
 >>> type('hello, world')
<type 'unicode'>
 >>>

The only problem I see is that the __future__ import of unicode_literals 
doesn't work in 3.0 yet.  I'll look into fixing that.

Eric.