On Saturday 13 April 2013 16:53:42 Richard Heck wrote: > Isn't there some "import __future__" thing we can use to make this easy? > Or is that what is only in 2.7? > > Richard
python 2.7 supports both "from future import xxxx" as well as new features that were backported from python 3 (specifically from 3.1) such as python 2.6 as incorporated features from python 3.0 That why I said that it possible to write code that is compatible between python 2.7 and python 3, if necessary using 2to3 as Günter referred before. FWIW http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/ (with a list of what has changed between each version) is a nice read. One example that illustrates my point, in lib/scripts/lyxpak.py we use sets (data structures, basically dictionaries where we only care about keys). In python 3 a set can be declared as {1,2,3,4,5} and so can you using python 2.7. In a sense this is a bad example because the previous syntax would still work set([1,2,3,4,5]) but I hope you get the point. :-) -- José Abílio
