"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (1) How far away is Python 3000? > Years away, although not that many years. Three? Four?
Try 1 1/2. Guido hopes to release 3.0a1 next January and 3.0 final a year after. > (2) Will there be automated tools for converting source code from Python > 2 > to Python 3000? > Almost certainly. There will be tools for detecting things that need examination. Complete auto conversion will probably not be possible. One way to program for the future is to import the future, in particular, 'integer division'. Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list