I think the main benefit of python-future is that the library helps us write straight Python 3 code instead of special bridged code.
For example, instead of writing six.iteritems(dict0), one could write simply dict0.items() and expect Python 3 behavior across Python 2 & 3. This way, whenever Python 2 support is dropped, we can easily drop the dependence on the library just by dropping the import statements, because the library mostly had no effect in Python 3 in the first place. But as others have pointed out, the downside is that the library mucks with the Python 2 internals, apparently causing much grief =( On 11/24/15, 7:05 PM, "Robert Collins" <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote: >Which bit in particular do you like? Some of the stuff - like >past.translation - is likely to be deeply fragile, other bits are >fine, but not really any different to six. > >On 25 November 2015 at 15:33, Eric Kao <ekcs.openst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I¹ve been using the python-future library for Python 3 porting and want >>to >> see what people think of it. >>http://python-future.org/overview.html#features >> >> The end result is standard Python3 code made compatible with Python2 >>through >> library imports. The great thing is that Python 3 execution is mostly >> independent of the library, so once Python 2 support is dropped, the >>use of >> the library can be dropped too. >> >> Anyone know why it¹s not used in OpenStack perhaps alongside six? >>Thanks! >> >> >>_________________________________________________________________________ >>_ >> 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 >> > > > >-- >Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> >Distinguished Technologist >HP Converged Cloud > >__________________________________________________________________________ >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 __________________________________________________________________________ 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
