[Python-Dev] Bring new features to older python versions

[Nick Coghlan]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rodola <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This let us use different stdlib features which appeared in latest
>> Python versions (including 3.2) throughout all our code base.
>> Now, what I have in mind is to release this as a public module so that
>> everyone who cannot upgrade to a recent python version can benefit of
>> newer features.
>
> There's also the logutils project, which aims to bring logging features added in
> recent Pythons to older Pythons - especially dictionary-based configuration and
> queue handlers to facilitate working with multiprocessing, ZeroMQ etc.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/logutils/

Should we create an informational PEP or other resource to point
people towards some of these forwards compatibility options?

Cheers,
Nick.

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