Using python 3 for scripting?

Paul Watson paul.hermeneutic at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 18:13:05 EDT 2009


On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 17:00 +0000, Timo Myyrä wrote:
> Ok, I think I'll stick with the 2.6 then. I recall it gave 
> warnings about things that are deprecated in 3.0 so it will make 
> porting the scripts to 3.0 easier. 
> 
> I might try 3.0 once I know what kind of scripts are needed.

Yes.  Develop your code using 2.6, then use the '2to3' utility to port
it to 3.0.

As others have mentioned, there are -many- third party packages which
are not available for 3.0 yet.




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