On 06/21/2011 11:21 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:34, Vinay Sajip<vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I'm testing a branch of Python which provides out-of-the-box ability to create
virtual enviroments à la virtualenv, and as part of that testing I have to
install Distribute in newly created environments a lot. Though normally running
2to3 as part of the Distribute installation is not a big deal, for this testing
I'm doing, it does slow things down a little.
While waiting for some tests to finish, I thought I might as well look into
whether Distribute could be made to run on 2.x and 3.x from a single code base,
thereby avoiding the 2to3 step.
I've made an attempt, and things seem to have gone reasonably smoothly: the
conversion is done and all unit tests pass on 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 (my branch).
We still need to support Python 2.4, right? That's a trickier issue.
But including six.py might help.
Afaik you can't catch exceptions in a way that is source-compatible with
python 3.x and <2.6 due to the switch from "except <class>, <variable>
to "except <class> as <variable>".
Wichert.
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