[Python-ideas] Code version evolver

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Mar 15 00:33:24 EDT 2019


francismb wrote:
> Yes a source transformer, but to be applied to some 3.x version to move
> it to the next 3.x+1, and so on ... (instead of '2to3' a kind of
> 'nowtonext', aka 'python_next')
> 
> Couldn't that relax the tension on doing 'backward compatibility
> changes' a bit ?

Not really. Having to translate all your source every time a
minor version update occurs would be a huge hassle.

-- 
Greg



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