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

[Brett Cannon]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll update the doc probably on Friday.

On Sat Dec 06 2014 at 12:41:54 AM Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 December 2014 at 14:40, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6 December 2014 at 10:44, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>
> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014, at 18:16, Donald Stufft wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >
> > As Benjamin says, we'll likely want to update the Python 2 version
> > eventually for the benefit of the downloadable version of the docs,
> > but Brett's also right it makes sense to wait for feedback on the
> > Python 3 version and then backport the most up to date text wholesale.
> >
> > In terms of the text itself, this is a great update Brett - thanks!
> >
> > A couple of specific notes:
> >
> > * http://python-future.org/compatible_idioms.html is my favourite
> > short list of "What are the specific Python 2 only habits that I need
> > to unlearn in order to start writing 2/3 compatible code?". It could
> > be worth mentioning in addition to the What's New documents and the
> > full Python 3 Porting book.
> >
> > * it's potentially worth explicitly noting the "bytes(index_value)"
> > and "str(bytes_value)" traps when discussing the bytes/text changes.
> > Those do rather different things in Python 2 & 3, but won't emit an
> > error or warning in either version.
>
> Given that 3.4 and 2.7.9 will be the first exposure some users will
> have had to pip, would it perhaps be worth explicitly mentioning the
> "pip install <X>" commands for the various tools? At least pylint's
> PyPI page only gives the manual download instructions, including which
> dependencies you will need to install.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
> --
> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
>
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