[Python-Dev] Python 2/3 porting HOWTO has been updated

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014, at 18:16, Donald Stufft wrote:
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> > On Dec 5, 2014, at 6:10 PM, Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri Dec 05 2014 at 4:07:46 PM Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org <mailto:benjamin at python.org>> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Dec 5, 2014, at 16:04, Brett Cannon wrote:
> > > It now promotes using tooling as much as possible to automate the process
> > > of making code by Python 2/3 source-compatible:
> > > https://docs.python.org/3.5/howto/pyporting.html <https://docs.python.org/3.5/howto/pyporting.html>
> > 
> > Are you going to update the 2.7 copy of the howto, too?
> > 
> > Have not decided yet. All the Google searches I have tried that bring up the HOWTO use the Python 3 version. Plus I know people are going to find mistakes that require fixing so I would rather wait until it stabilizes before I bother backporting to 2.7. 
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> Do we need to update it? Can it just redirect to the 3 version?

Technically, yes, of course. However, that would unexpected take you out
of the Python 2 docs "context". Also, that doesn't solve the problem for
the downloadable versions of the docs.