[Python-3000] interaction between locals, builtins and except clause (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jul 27 12:20:09 CEST 2007

Lisandro Dalcin wrote:

I think it should work in any 2x and 3K. Is this right? Perhaps this trick could be used for some automated conversion tool targeting backward compatibility with 2.x series.

The backwards compatible version looks like this:

 def __iter__(self):
      if self == _mpi.INFO_NULL:
          return
      nkeys = _mpi.info_get_nkeys(self)
      for nthkey in xrange(nkeys):
          yield _mpi.info_get_nthkey(self, nthkey)

The 2to3 converter will automatically convert the xrange() call to a range() call for the Py3k version.

If you want to persist in trying to get the same code running on both Py3k and 2.x without using the 2->3 converter, then I suggest segregating it all into a compatibility module and do:

from py3k_compat import _range

The try/except code to determine how to set _range would then occur only once, regardless of the number of places where you used it.

Cheers, Nick.

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