[Tutor] Is it possible to "backport" the datetime module of Python 3.3 to Python 3.2?

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Tue Apr 21 14:50:22 CEST 2015


On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 12:31:53PM +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote:

> Python is very strong in guaranteeing backward compatibility, so why not 
> copy the 3.3 pure Python code to your 3.2 setup and see what happens?

Normally backwards compatibility refers to the other way: 3.3 will run 
3.2 code. To have 3.2 run 3.3 code is *forward compatibility*.


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Steve


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