* Steven D'Aprano:
Nobody is trying to understate the complexity of writing a large
application that supports both 2.6 and 3.x, or of taking an existing
library written for 2.5 and upgrading it to support 3.1. But the
magnitude of these tasks is no greater (and potentially smaller) than
supporting (say) 2.3 through 2.5. To describe it as "hopeless" is simply
mistaken and weakens your credibility.
It seems that people here put a lot of meaning into "hopeless"...
Would it be better to say that it's "hard" or "very hard" or "impractical for
the novice"?
After all, the bug that this thread is about demonstrated that unit tests
designed for 2.x do not necessarily uncover 3.x incompatibilities.
Even at the level of Python's own standard library.
But, regarding reformulations that don't imply untrue things to anyone (or
nearly), I'd like the text on that page to still fit on one page. :-)
Cheers,
- Alf
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