The real problem with Python 3 - no business case for conversion(was "I strongly dislike Python 3")
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From: Philip Semanchuk on 8 Jul 2010 09:44 On Jul 7, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 7/7/2010 5:29 AM, geremy condra wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Terry Reedy<tjreedy(a)udel.edu> wrote: >>> On 7/5/2010 9:00 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote: >>>> On Jul 5, 2010, at 6:41 PM, Chris Rebert wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Philip Semanchu > >>>>>> I ported two pure C extensions from 2 to 3 and was even able to >>>>>> keep a >>>>>> single C codebase. I'd be willing to contribute my experiences >>>>>> to a >>>>>> document >>>>>> somewhere. (Is there a Wiki?) > >>>>> Indeed there is: http://wiki.python.org/moin/ > >>>> Thanks. I don't want to appear ungrateful, but I was hoping for >>>> something specific to the 2-to-3 conversion. I guess someone has to >>>> start somewhere... > >>> There is an existing 2to3 and other pages for Python code >>> conversion. I do >>> not know of any for CAPI conversion. The need for such has been >>> acknowledged >>> among the devs but if there is nothing yet, we need someone with >>> specialized >>> experience and a bit of time to make a first draft. If you start >>> one, give >>> it an easy to remember name C2to3? 2to3Capi? You choose. And link >>> to it from >>> the 2to3 pag >>> In his post on this thread, Martin Loewis volunteered to list what >>> he knows >>> from psycopg2 if someone else will edit. > >> I'm not sure why I don't have this post, but I'm happy to help edit >> etc if Martin >> wants to put together a rough draft. > > Since I wrote that, someone pointed out the the Python How-to > collection includes Porting Extension Modules to 3.0 > by Benjamim Peterson. So all Pyilip or Martin need to do is read > that and suggest additions. That document is here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PortingExtensionModulesToPy3k It took me a while to find. It's a shame it's not better known; I looked for such a document before I started porting sysv_ipc and posix_ipc and didn't find this one. Thanks for the pointer. Cheers Philip |