So you have a string of text, either a Unicode string in Python 3, or
a byte string that's meant to be UTF-8. Most of the way through,
you're working with the native string type, for compatibility with
other sections of code. But then you want to be certain you're working
with a Unicode string...
On 6/2/2013 10:13 AM, Jason Swails wrote:
Because Python 2.4 and 2.5 don't support the
except Exception as err:
syntax, I've used
except Exception, err:
Is there any way of getting this effect in a way compatible with Py2.4
and 3.x?
Don't do either. Just catch the exception with 'except Ex
From
http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~dstromberg/Intro-to-Python/Python%202%20and%203.pdf:
Try/Except: both 2.x and 3.x
try:
print(1/0)
except ZeroDivisionError:
extra = sys.exc_info()[1]
print('oops')
HTH
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Jason Swails wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I ha
Hello Everyone,
I have a Python script that I wrote to support a project that I work on
(that runs primarily on Unix OSes). Given its support role in this
package, this script should not introduce any other dependencies. As a
result, I wrote the script in Python 2, since every Linux currently sh
Terry, Ethan:
Thanks a lot for your excellent advice. :-)
On 2013-04-13 19:32, Terry Jan Reedy wrote:
> Approach 2 matches (or should match) io.open, which became
> builtin open in Python 3. I would simply document that
> ftp_host.open mimics io.open in the same way that
> ftp_host.chdir, etceter
On 04/13/2013 09:36 AM, Stefan Schwarzer wrote:
* Approach 2
When opening remote text files for reading, ftputil will
always return unicode strings from `read(line/s)`,
regardless of whether it runs under Python 2 or Python 3.
Pro: Uniform API, independent on underlying Python
On 4/13/2013 12:36 PM, Stefan Schwarzer wrote:
Hello,
I'm currently changing the FTP client library ftputil [1]
so that the same code of the library works with Python
2 (2.6 and up) and Python 3. (At the moment the code is for
Python 2 only.) I've run into a API design issue where I
don't know w
Hello,
I'm currently changing the FTP client library ftputil [1]
so that the same code of the library works with Python
2 (2.6 and up) and Python 3. (At the moment the code is for
Python 2 only.) I've run into a API design issue where I
don't know which API I should offer ftputil users under
Pytho
