[Python-Dev] Spreading the Python 3 religion (was Re: PEP 414 - Unicode Literals for Python 3)

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:07, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> <martin <at> v.loewis.de> writes:
>
> > One thing that the PEP will certainly achieve is to spread the myth that
> > you cannot port to Python 3 if you also want to support Python 2.5.
> That's
> > because people will accept the "single source" approach as the one right
> > way, and will accept that this only works well with Python 2.6.
>
> Let's hope not. We can mitigate that by spelling out in the docs that
> there's
> no one right way, how to choose which approach is best for a given
> project, and
> so on.
>

Changes to http://docs.python.org/howto/pyporting.html are welcome. I tried
to make sure it exposed all possibilities with tips on how to support as
far back as Python 2.5.
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