On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Kevin Hunter <khun...@sandia.gov> wrote:
> At 4:54pm -0600 Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Aaron S. Meurer wrote: > > Or 3. Dump Python 2.4 and get rid of that function. :) > > Right on. > > I'm in the middle of trying to resurrect support for Python 2.4 right > now for a project. It's a pain, and frankly, I think my boss is on the > wrong track. Python 2.4 was last released in 2005. (Late 2004, if you > want to get technical.) It's still viable, but there are a number of > corner case bugs that are time consuming (at best) to work with. Python > 2.5+ is *much* easier to maintain. > All of those running RHEL or CentOS 5 would rather like Python 2.4 support, I'd guess, since those distros only package up to 2.4.3. Unless you're being paid to work with Python 2.4, I would highly suggest > you pull the "It's open source, and there are only so many work-hours we > volunteers can put into Sympy" card, keep your sanity, and do more > efficient and fun things with the project. Python 3 adoption is around > the corner, and I expect a large portion of the community will jump when > Numpy et al. make the jump. I say work towards Python 3, not 2.4. > SymPy *is* progressing towards Python 3; I know, because Ondrej forced me into helping. :) Since we'll have to run 2to3 on the source anyways, I see no harm in adding in something that it will resolve. My previous post notwithstanding, you could also use the inspect > class, available since Python v2.1: > http://docs.python.org/library/inspect.html > . I believe isfunction is what you want. > isfunction does seem to be a good choice - it's available in 2.4 /and/ 3.1, works if the user passes in a full function, and doesn't return True on methods or __call__-able objects. Thanks for pointing it out. Patch using isfunction at http://github.com/xiongchiamiov/sympy/compare/master...tempfix2 -- James Pearson -- Of all the subjects of human behavior, two are most storied: warfare and love. -- Cogitor Eklo, Ruminations on Things Lost -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sy...@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.
