[Tutor] Using the Nimblenet Library in Python 3.6

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 23:02:20 EDT 2018


On 05/04/18 00:07, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 04/04/18 16:10, Evapcoop, Evapcoop wrote:
>> I wanted to know if it is possible to use Nimblenet and all it's
>> associated packages with Python3.6.> From what I have read, that library is compatible with Python2.7.
> 
> I think you just answered your own question. If the package is
> designed for v2.7 its extremely unlikely to work in 3.6 even if
> you did succeed in importing it. The differences between 2.7
> and 3.6 are significant.
> 

Python 3.6 has more functionality than 2.7 by definition, but your 
comment implies, at least to me, that 2.7 and 3.6 are chalk and cheese. 
Nothing could be further from the truth and has regrettably been one of 
the reasons for the dreadfully slow uptake of Python 3.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence



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