[Python-Dev] Python-3000 upgrade path (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Feb 26 00:37:08 CET 2007

On 2/25/07, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:

On 2/25/07, Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com> wrote: > Any talk at PyCon regarding the new IO system? That looks like the > biggest piece of unfinished Py3k work.

AFAIK, there hasn't been any work on the new IO system or str/unicode unification. Guido asked for help on these, but I don't know if there were any takers. Sprints will be held over the next several days, so hopefully there will be some work in these areas.

Right. To be honest, I consider the str/unicode unification a much bigger project than the new I/O library. I plan to do the new I/O library first (mostly in Python) first, hopefully at the PyCon sprint, since it can be done with the bytes and unicode objects; the old I/O library will break once we do the unification so the I/O library must be replaced before the unification can be started.

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