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

[Georg Brandl]

Am 08.01.2014 16:38, schrieb Nick Coghlan:
> On 9 January 2014 01:05, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> My apologies, that was rather rude of me when you're offering to help
> (I'm irritable at the moment since I've deemed it necessary to spend a
> bunch of time over the past week updating my Python 3 Q & A rather
> than enjoying my Christmas holidays, working on Python 3.4 or, this
> week, enjoying linux.conf.au 2014).

Please know that we all love you a bit more for that :)

Georg