Martijn Faassen: The Call of Python 2.8

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Apr 14 10:46:34 EDT 2014


On 14/04/2014 14:51, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
>
>> If you're going to do that, why not just port your code to 3.x and be
>> done with it? Who has the resources to put hours and hours of dev time
>> into a 2.8?

The people who haven't had enough time over the last eight years to plan 
their upgrade path to 3.x.  Eight years comes from the date of the first 
message here https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/ which was 
21/03/2006, so feel free to come up with a different answer for the time 
span.

>
> Somewhat related. Only yesterday I ported/reimplemented a software
> package to python3. On the finish line, I ran into a problem: xlwt
> only supports 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3. My system has python3.2.
>
> So I backtracked to python2.7.
>
> So not only do we have a schism between python2 and python3 but there's
> one between 3.0 and 3.3. I can't help but wonder if PEP 414 was a
> mistake.

I still believe that PEP 404 was the correct thing to do.  PEP 414 was a 
no brainer :)

>
> Serves me right for being an "early adopter."

No, serves the community right for not providing enough support to 
authors in getting their packages updated.

>
>
> Marko
>


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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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