[Python-Dev] Python 3 design principles (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 10:59:56 CEST 2005


Collin Winter wrote:

Am 31-Aug 05, Charles Cazabon <python at discworld.dyndns.org> schrieb:

Perhaps py3k could have a py2compat module. Importing it could have the effect of (for instance) putting compile, id, and intern into the global namespace, making print an alias for writeln, alias the standard library namespace, ... ? from past import python2

If we ever get the ast-branch finished, then keeping a copy of the final 2.x parser around that targets the Python AST should actually be feasible, too.

Cheers, Nick.

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