[Python-Dev] Python-3000 upgrade path

[Guido van Rossum]

On 2/25/07, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/25/07, Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com> wrote:
> > Any talk at PyCon regarding the new IO system?  That looks like the
> > biggest piece of unfinished Py3k work.
>
> AFAIK, there hasn't been any work on the new IO system or str/unicode
> unification.  Guido asked for help on these, but I don't know if there
> were any takers.  Sprints will be held over the next several days, so
> hopefully there will be some work in these areas.

Right. To be honest, I consider the str/unicode unification a much
bigger project than the new I/O library. I plan to do the new I/O
library first (mostly in Python) first, hopefully at the PyCon sprint,
since it can be done with the bytes and unicode objects; the old I/O
library will break once we do the unification so the I/O library must
be replaced before the unification can be started.

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