[Tutor] Identifying V3 examples

[Jon Paris]

The one example I specifically remember was this one http://code.activestate.com/recipes/532908-text-to-pdf-converter-rewrite/ - I happened to be looking for a simple pdf utility and this one was well reviewed. I subsequently have been told that the parts that 2to3 had trouble with were bad practice to begin with - but what do I know. Most of the other examples 2to3 converted (once I discovered it existed and how to use it in my setup) or I was able to decipher myself.

I’ll take a look at your tutorial - thanks.


Jon Paris
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On Jul 21, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:

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> On 21/07/15 14:27, Jon Paris wrote:
>> Just about everywhere I had looked Alan!
>> 
>> I had figured out the print() bit pretty early on but some other things were more problematic - particularly when 2to3 basically just added commented names that effectively said to fix it manually. I subsequently found out that the original example (a praised published example) was using poor V2 coding practice and that that was the main reason that 2to3 couldn’t convert it.
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> Name some names.
> It's hard to guess without seeing examples.
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>> I guess I had just hoped that there were one or two sites that had taken the step of converting V2 examples or at least specialized in V3 examples.
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> Some tutorial sites (including mine) have v3 versions. But libraries take longer to update,
> especially since writing documentation tends to be a non-favourite job...
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> Some libraries, such as Pillow, should be v3 since it was largely motivated by v3.
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