[Tutor] 3to2?

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Sat Apr 20 23:31:29 CEST 2013


On 20/04/13 19:32, Jim Mooney wrote:
> I was looking at google pengine for python and it only supports 2.7.
> I've installed 3 and would rather not go back

This is why we tend to recommend 2.7 for anyone doing serious work in 
Python.

Any dependency on a 3rd party library is much more likely to succeed if 
you stick with 2.x.

And as for automated tools - its very unusual to provide tools to port 
backwards, most folks want to go the other way...


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Alan G
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