On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Fredrik Johansson<fredrik.johans...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Ondrej Certik<ond...@certik.cz> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I just wanted to make a quick survey how many sympy users still use >> python2.4? >> >> Now even the stable version of Debian uses python2.5. Is there still a >> major linux distribution that uses python2.4? >> >> The real problem with python2.4 is that it doesn't support relative >> imports and as such it's a realy pain to include libraries like >> mpmath. > > The biggest problem with the imports in my opinion is not package > management, but 3.x compatibility. It would be fairly easy to support > both 2.x and 3.x in mpmath with the same codebase (and I would > strongly prefer to do this instead of providing two versions). The > only serious problem is that 3.x requires explicit relative imports > while 2.4 doesn't have them. > > So right now the choice is between supporting 2.4 and supporting 3.x, > and probably supporting 2.4 is the right choice for a while longer.
Cannot the 2to3 script fix that? I think it can, but maybe I am wrong. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
