See also this (somewhat old) thread: http://groups.google.com/group/sympy/browse_thread/thread/b0103e9ce1301440#
As far as triviality of the support, I guess we could keep rewriting the Python 2.5+ functions in iterables.py (so far we have four), but as soon as we get the assumptions system to the point where it can be used with with statements, it won't be so easy to do that anymore. Also, as I noted in a previous thread, we will have to either write a custom reduce() in iterables.py or drop Python 2.4 in order to support Python 3 functools.reduce(). Like any() and all(), it probably wouldn't be too hard to rewrite it, though. Aaron Meurer On Jul 6, 2010, at 6:41 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > 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. >> >> 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. > > I think we should have a function that does the job, that needs to be > done, that would be a one-liner in python2.5 or 2.6, and in this case, > as I understand, it's trivial to support python2.4, and if it's > trivial, I think we should do it. > > If it requires a week of work, we should not do it imho and we should > rather spend the week porting to python3. > > Ondrej > -- 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.
