2009/11/4 "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de>: >> Keep in mind also that the 2.x translation process is extremely slow and >> results in a clunky development process. There's no '2to3 >> --interactive' commandline that lets me type python 2 at a >>> prompt >> and get python 3 results out so that I can try experiments on the 3.x >> interpreter; I have to actually put my experiments into my unit tests >> and wait 10 minutes to see if it works. It's like writing C++. > > That's not my experience. I see a change in source (say, on Django) > available for 3.x within 5 seconds.
True, but you need to set up a process that will convert only the changed files, and before Distribute came with 3.0 support, that was tedious. Now it's easy, if you want to use distribute. (Except that there is some bug I promised to look at this week, but haven't....) -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com