On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 16:07 -0400, Sean Toner wrote: > What I meant by the worst of both worlds is that you don't get the nice > new features of python3, while simultaneously dealing with the headaches > of making code run under both python versions. You'll have to do weird > things with imports (for example urllib) and deal with the > inconsistencies between some functions that return strings and some that > return unicode, and some that return bytes. > > It's not impossible, but you have to add that extra work while also > depriving yourself of the goodness of python3 only features :)
This is why the 'six' library is such a godsend; this stuff is still not easy, but the hardest parts, like the imports problem, are already taken care of by six…and maintaining the bytes/strings/unicode distinction is actually just as useful in Python 2, it just doesn't have the machinery to really detect the mixing :) -- Kevin L. Mitchell <kevin.mitch...@rackspace.com> Rackspace __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
