On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Emile Anclin <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> I had some thoughts on the py3k port:
>
> * as I understand it, pylint for python 2.X will only run against 2.X
> and pylint3 will have to run against 3.X: the reason is that the _ast
> module used for astng will parse the code as 2.X / 3.X, and throws
> SyntaxErrors if the code is not acceptable for the running python
> version.
>
> * imho, the py3k branch in logilab-common is not very usefull: it is just
> passing 2to3 on the whole package. Following the python doc,
>
> http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/whatsnew/3.0.html#porting-to-python-3-0
> we should not go along this way.
>
> I'll try to propose a plan corresponding to what is explained on python
> doc:
>
> 1) make logilab-common run on py3k (i.e. make the tests work).
>   this should also make pytest run on python3.X
>   I believe we need that to run the tests on astng and pylint;
>
>
> 2) astng:
>
>   a) we will have some work to make the old tests pass, related to this:
>
>   b) quote my mail from Mon Apr 12 10:58:24 CEST 2010:
> """
> we will have to parse new kind of nodes (Nonlocal, Dict/SetGenerator,
> Starred (at least for extended literal unpacking), SetComp etc. hence a
> lot of new 'visit_%' methods in astng
> """
>
>   c) deal with 'print' as a function and the other modifications
>
>   *) there is actually not that much stuff concerning python <=2.4,
>  just one module, hence not much work to save...
>
>
> 3) pylint; make tests pass with py3k, write new visit_* methods and
> test...
>
>
> Fully Automated conversion will not work. We have more than syntactic
> changes to do: we have different trees with new nodes, nodes that
> disappear...
>
> I don't know if it is possible to have only one version of astng + pylint
> code, but we could try it.
>
> I hope that my informations helped, and I hope I will work on astng :)

Thanks for your thoughts.

Now might be a good time to send out this page again:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyLint-3k

Do you feel that the conversion will of necessity be more complex than what
sa2to3 and perhaps some if's or conditional imports can handle?

-- 
Dan Stromberg
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