On Tuesday, April 5, 2011 2:16:07 AM UTC+1, harrismh777 wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > I prefer to consider Python 2.7 and Python 3.x as different dialects of > > the same language. There are a very few handful of incompatibilities, > > most of which can be automatically resolved by the 2to3 fixers. > > Yes, I am actually finding this to be consistent with my experience of > trying to come up to speed with 3.2. I have been relieved to find that > less has changed than the fear-mongering and bickering was leading me to > believe. > > Another item that would be nice as an IDLE enhancement would be a menu > option that applies the fixers (either direction depending on version > 2.7 <--> 3.2) right in the IDE. Entries that could not be fixed could be > flagged for manual update. > > If there are good tools for app developers to use to make the transition > smoother then the development community won't get their ear chewed off > so ragged, I'm supposing.
Hats off and three cheers to the developers and python community as a whole, as some are down to sugesting easier access to 2<->3 rather than OMG! How do I port!! Now that is an excellent sign that Python works. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
