On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 19:52 -0500, Glyph wrote: > Zooming back in to the actual issue this thread is about, I think the > u""-vs-"" issue is a bit of a red herring, because the _real_ problem > here is that 2to3 is slow and buggy and so migration efforts are > starting to work around it, and therefore want to run the same code on > 3.x and all the way back to 2.5.
Even if it weren't slow, I still wouldn't use it to automatically convert code at install time; a single codebase is easier to reason about, and easier to support. Users send me tracebacks all the time; having them match the source is a wonderful thing. - C _______________________________________________ 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
