python-2.6 and python-3.x

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Thu Apr 2 17:53:00 UTC 2009


Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi schrieb:
>> I don't have a solution for this yet.  Just throwing this out there as
>> something we need to consider as we start to port code to python-2.6
>> +py3 compat.
>>   
> I thnk there is an additional issue we have. On Fedora we have several
> packages
> which use the C-API of python to extent the python environment. One example
> it blender which contains python scripts which need a python extension
> provided
> by blender.
> 
> I think porting this kind of application may nned a lot of work to
> porting to
> Python 3000. So I thin wee need a python-2.6 compat package for a while
> until
> all applications will been ported.
> 
I think that the C API is an additional barrier but if we can't do the
pure python modules in a gradual transition, whether we're able to port
the C API without a compat package period will be moot.

-Toshio

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