On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 07:46:56PM +0000, Neven Sajko wrote: > Hmm, after looking at the last few commits, it seems this may be a > more involved issue > than I first thought. On the one hand one has to take care to use the > proper choice > between "Unicode" and "byte" strings,
Thanks for the suggestions on the patch, Neven. Your alternative suggestions give me something to look into and learn more about Python quoting and encoding. > on the other hand it seems like > the Lyx guys want > the script to work for both Python 2 and Python 3. The current 2.4.0dev README says the following: Python (2.7 or 3.5 and newer) to convert old LyX files and for helper scripts. > I'm curious, why is it necessary to support Python 2? I forget what the discussion is regarding why we chose those versions. From what I understand, requiring 2.7 (as opposed to some earlier 2.x) makes things easier. Probably we will not allow 2.7 after some time or whenever it would be a pain to maintain 2.7 compatibility for a particular issue. Best, Scott
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