[Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 05:57:27 CET 2009


On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Daniel Stutzbach
<daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote:
> It's pretty easy to make Python source that works under 2.6 and 3.x.  It's
> basically impossible to make Python source that works under 2.4/2.5 and
> 3.x.

This keeps getting quoted later in the thread so I just wanted to say
again that this is not true. The argparse module supports Python
2.3-3.1 all from the same codebase, and it really wasn't all that
hard:

  http://code.google.com/p/argparse/source/detail?r=12

Steve
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