Detecting __future__ features

Carsten Haese carsten at uniqsys.com
Mon Jul 30 10:40:15 EDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:10 +0000, Neil Cerutti wrote:
> On 2007-07-30, Diez B. Roggisch <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> > Making the switch between different parser-implementations on
> > the fly isn't technically impossible - but really, really,
> > really complicated. But then, if it's lameness sucks so much,
> > you might wanna take a stab at it?
> 
> I was considering the following specific quote:
> 
>   What if you are designing a module meant to be imported, and
>   used by other programs over which you have no control?   You
>   can't use "from __future__ import" in your module."
> 
> If that were true, I think it would indeed be lame. Of course, it
> isn't true, right?

Correct, the statement you're referring to is not true. See my earlier
reply on this thread for details.

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