The looming Python 3(000) monster

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 18:40:16 UTC 2008


Stephen Warren wrote:
> On Fri, December 5, 2008 8:19 am, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> Which isn't much help if python 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 don't support
>> 'from future import' and you care about shipping stuff that works
>> on the 99% of deployed Linux boxes today which don't have 2.6
>> let alone 3.0.
> 
> For heavens sake, the world is not falling.
> 
> If you don't want to use the new features, just don't use them.
> 
The problem is that you have to use some of the new features to be valid
 python3 code.  So being compatible with python <=2.5 and python3.x+
will be painful at best and impossible at worst.

-Toshio


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