[Web-SIG] Should PEP 3333 be Python 3-only? What about transcoding?

[Lennart Regebro]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 02:26, and-py <and-py at doxdesk.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 19:19 -0400, P.J. Eby wrote:
>> Should we ditch that, and say, "hey, if you want Python 2.x code
>> samples, go see PEP 333?"
>
> That seems reasonable to me: if there is indeed never going to be a
> Python 2.8, there is no way the PEP can ever be accepted for a Python 2
> release anyway.

That doesn't mean it should not work on Python 2. Major rule in Python
3 porting: Don't change your API's. ;-)