[Python-Dev] Proposal for new 2to23 tool

[Brett Cannon]

On Nov 11, 2007 4:00 PM, Graham Horler <graham.horler at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been developing in Python since 1.5, and now have to support 2.1
> as a minimum version.  I do like to keep my code runnable on newer
> versions however, and am considering the feasability of forward
> compatibility with Python 3.0.
>
> I also notice the Leo[1] project could use some assistance with forward
> compatibility.
>
> So I was wondering if anyone else had a need for a 2to23.py tool to help
> make code compatible with 3.0 but not break it for 2.x.

What exactly are you proposing?  We already have 2to3
(http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/2to3/) for source-to-source
translation from 2.x to 3.0.

-Brett