Gabriel Genellina wrote: >> Has the standard library changed that much? I thought was it mainly the >> deletion of old seldom used modules that happens in new releases anyways. > > *and* renaming of old module names that don't follow PEP8, and merging > others into packages for better structure. > That's another point where using the 2to3 tool is necesary -it takes > care of such changes- unless one wants to maintain two branches.
conditional imports were never a problem in Python. Once things are in their final place, you can add a try-except and import from two different places - unless (I assume) you want to use 2to3, which might even break this approach. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
