[Python-Dev] PEP 385 progress report (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Sat Feb 13 17:48:02 CET 2010

2010/2/13 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:

I personally like 2to3 in a separate repo because it fits well with my view that 2to3 is an extra application that happens to also be distributed with python. But isn't that just a theoretical property? I know that's how 2to3 started, but who, other than the committers, actually accesses the 2to3 repo?

It's used in 3to2 for example.

I would be much more supportive of that view if there had been a single release of 2to3 at any point in time (e.g. to PyPI). Alas, partially due to me creating lib2to3, you actually couldn't release it as an extra application and run it on 2.6 or 2.7, as the builtin lib2to3 would take precedence over the lib2to3 bundled with the application.

It could be distributed under another name or provide a way to override the stdlib version.

-- Regards, Benjamin

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