The real problem with Python 3 - no business case for conversion (was "I strongly dislike Python 3")

geremy condra debatem1 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 05:29:05 EDT 2010


On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 7/5/2010 9:00 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 5, 2010, at 6:41 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Philip Semanchuk
>
>>>> I ported two pure C extensions from 2 to 3 and was even able to keep a
>>>> single C codebase. I'd be willing to contribute my experiences to a
>>>> document
>>>> somewhere. (Is there a Wiki?)
>>>
>>> Indeed there is: http://wiki.python.org/moin/
>>
>> Thanks. I don't want to appear ungrateful, but I was hoping for
>> something specific to the 2-to-3 conversion. I guess someone has to
>> start somewhere...
>
> There is an existing 2to3 and other pages for Python code conversion. I do
> not know of any for CAPI conversion. The need for such has been acknowledged
> among the devs but if there is nothing yet, we need someone with specialized
> experience and a bit of time to make a first draft. If you start one, give
> it an easy to remember name C2to3? 2to3Capi? You choose. And link to it from
> the 2to3 page
>
> In his post on this thread, Martin Loewis volunteered to list what he knows
> from psycopg2 if someone else will edit.

I'm not sure why I don't have this post, but I'm happy to help edit
etc if Martin
wants to put together a rough draft.

Geremy Condra



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