[Tutor] Using the Nimblenet Library in Python 3.6

[Alan Gauld]

On 05/04/18 15:28, Zachary Ware wrote:

> I would appreciate keeping the FUD about the differences to a minimum
> :).  The differences are there and they are significant, but far from
> insurmountable; in my experience, well-written Python 3 code is fairly
> trivial to port to Python 2/3.  

I agree but we were speaking in the context of the OP who wanted to use
a module written for 2.7 within 3.6. I stated that was unlikely to work
because the differences in versions were significant. It is non trivial
but not difficult to port code from one version to another. It is very
much more effort to produce a single code base that works with both v2
and v3. And that was the context in which my comments should be taken.

Speaking personally I write almost all my new code for v3 and keep
my old code at v2. I have ported a few projects to v3. I have only
written 2 projects that work on both versions and they were
painful to do. That was what I was talking about in my response
to Mark. It's not a reasonable thing to expect a module written
for v2 to work in v3, it's too much work for most authors. They
might consider porting it to v3 if they are not busy with other
things but trying to build for dual versions is no fun at all.

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