[Python-ideas] from __past__ import division, str, etc

[Nick Coghlan]

On 9 January 2014 00:57, Alejandro López Correa <alc at spika.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new here. I am sorry if this idea has already been discussed, but I have
> not found a way to search this list (I am not used to mailing lists at all).
>
> I've seen recently some discussion in reddit about python 2 vs python 3, and
> the slow adoption of the latter. I am proposing here pragmatic way to speed
> up the process of porting old code and thus solving the split in the
> community, that I believe it is a serious threat. It is not clean, not at
> all, but it might work: just give python 2 whiners what they [we] want, and
> do it using "from __past__ import", in a similar way "from __future__
> import" is used.

Hi,

You may want to read through
http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python3/questions_and_answers.html
before lending too much weight to ill-informed Reddit commentary.

Cheers,
Nick.

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