On Thu Dec 11 2014 at 3:14:42 PM Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Mark Roberts <wiz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I disagree. I know there's a huge focus on The Big Libraries (and > wholesale > > migration is all but impossible without them), but the long tail of > > libraries is still incredibly important. It's like saying that migrating > the > > top 10 Perl libraries to Perl 6 would allow people to completely ignore > all > > of CPAN. It just doesn't make sense. > > Things in the Python 2.x vs 3.x world aren't that bad. > > See: > https://python3wos.appspot.com/ and > https://wiki.python.org/moin/PortingPythonToPy3k > http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/Intro-to-Python/ (writing code > to run on 2.x and 3.x) > > I believe just about everything I've written over the last few years > either ran on 2.x and 3.x unmodified, or ran on 3.x alone. If you go > the former route, you don't need to wait for your libraries to be > updated. > > I usually run pylint twice for my projects (after each change, prior > to checkin), once with a 2.x interpreter, and once with a 3.x > interpreter (using > http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/svn/this-pylint/trunk/this-pylint) , but > I gather pylint has the option of running on a 2.x interpreter and > warning about anything that wouldn't work on 3.x. > Pylint 1.4 has a --py3k flag to run only checks related to Python 3 compatibility under Python 2.
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