[Tutor] making a string

[Mark Lawrence]

On 26/05/2013 22:40, Jim Mooney wrote:
> On 26 May 2013 02:51, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Basically no.  Python 2.7 is guaranteed to be backward compatible with
>> Python 2.6.  New or improved functionality will be listed in the "What's New
>> for Python 2.7".  In fact if you look at the "What's New for Python 3.3"
>> you'll find all of the "What's New" going back to Python 2.0.  See this
>> http://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/index.html.
>
> That's a relief. I started with Py 3.3, realized a lot of stuff wasn't
> there for it yet, regressed to 2.7, but still write "input" instead of
> "raw_input" now and then, producing an error I think is mine until I
> see what I did ;')  "raw_input" is such an awkwardness for a very
> common use, that I'm surprised it was there in the first place.
>
> Incidentally, I was figuring how to use compile for multi line
> statements since the example I saw was a single line, compiled a small
> multi-line routine nicely, and realized I had just compiled a  bad
> syntax error. I was trying to iterate an integer.
>
> Good to know that compile doesn't check syntax, since I erroneously
> thought it did.
>

You might like to know that it's possible to write code that's usable 
with both Python 2 and Python 3, see this for starters 
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six/1.3.0.

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Mark Lawrence