On 29 June 2013 10:09, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > Am I making this too complicated? Can I just do my renaming in the setup.py > script before calling the setup function?
You can't easily create a wheel that way. What would actually be better is if you could avoid the need for any Python 3 specific syntax in the first place. Are you sure you can't tweak the code to use types.new_class or an inner function call to avoid the syntax problems? For example, Python 2 can do keyword only arguments like this: def _unpack_args(module=None, type=None): return module, type class CallableWithKeywordOnlyArgs def __call__(cls, value, names=None, **kwargs): module, type = _unpack_kwargs(**kwargs) The introspection support and error messages aren't as good as those for true Python 3 keyword-only arguments, but they're not *that* bad. There's a reason shared syntax compatible 2/3 source has become the most popular approach for straddling the 2/3 boundary - the alternatives are all lousy by comparison. Conditional distribution of version specific source files is far more painful than jumping through a few syntactic hoops to stay within the common 2/3 subset of the language. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig