Hi Andy didn't you start a while ago? I think the unicode strings alone will make life a lot easier for all pythonistas not harder.
Plus with the xml parsing libraries that exist now no need to roll your own - well apart from keeping other peoples bugs out... Your codebase would become smaller and easier to maintain. Shaun Laughey. (a reportlab fan) 2009/5/7 Andy Robinson <a...@reportlab.com>: > 2009/5/7 John Pinner <funth...@gmail.com>: >> But if you are developing new software you should be using Python 3, >> ready for when it becomes the default in Linux distributions (already >> it is, in Ubuntu 9.04). > > I just did a clean install of Ubuntu desktop 9.04 2 days ago, and > typing 'python' brings up 2.6.2. I have to type 'python3' to get > Python 3.0. So I'm not sure what "the default" means. > > Otherwise I fully agree (but still dread upgrading ten years worth of code...) > > - Andy > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
