[Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?
Mike Krell
mbk.lists at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 20:30:47 CET 2009
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:02 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>wrote:
> > The main reason I want a long 2.x series is that I believe it would more
> > easily allow us infrastructure folks to drop support for *older*
> > versions. With this big 2.x->3.x chasm, I can't really see an end in
> > sight for Twisted using Python 2.x as its _source_ language, translating
> > with 2to3.
>
> Well, 3to2 would then be an option for you: use Python 3 as the source
> language.
>
A migration path which would be made all the more compelling with the
addition of the nonlocal keyword to 2.7 ;-)
Mike
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