On 10/01/2014 21:31, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 10/01/2014 20:38, Skip Montanaro wrote:
Anyone in the
know who can explain this phenomenon?
I don't think I can explain it authoritatively, but I can hazard a
guess. Skimming the archives sorted by author, it looks like most/all
the correspondents are Python core developers. That leads me to
believe this was a list created for the core Python developers to
discuss issues related to porting tools such as 2to3 or six. I doubt
it was intended for Python programmers to get help porting their own
code. From the Python core development perspective, I think automated
porting tools are likely pretty mature at this point and don't warrant
a lot of discussion.
Skip
If the dumbo OP had remembered to say that
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-porting states rather
vaguely "This list is to contain discussion of porting Python code
between versions, mainly from Python 2.x to 3.x." it might have helped
garner more answers. Still, if we leave the list open for long enough
we'll all be able to discuss porting python 2.x to python 4.x :)
I've now found this
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-December/083951.html
QUOTE
It is a public mailing list open to everyone. We expect active
participation of many people porting their libraries/programs, and hope
that the list can be a help to all wanting to go this (not always smooth
:-) way.
ENDQUOTE
Strikes me that if more people had participated, or maybe even known
about it, we currently wouldn't be on the edge of WWIII regarding PEP 460.
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