[Python-Dev] PEP 414 - Unicode Literals for Python 3

[Giampaolo Rodolà]

Il 28 febbraio 2012 13:19, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> ha scritto:
>
> Le mardi 28 février 2012 à 22:14 +1000, Nick Coghlan a écrit :
>> If you're using separate branches, then your Python 2 code isn't being
>> made forward compatible with Python 3. Yes, it avoids making your
>> Python 2 code uglier, but it means maintaining two branches in
>> parallel until you drop Python 2 support.
>
> IMO, maintaining two branches shouldn't be much more work than
> maintaining hacks so that a single codebase works with two different
> programming languages.

Would that mean distributing 2 separate tarballs?
How would tools such as easy_install and pip work in respect of that?
Is there a naming convention they can rely on?


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