[Python-Dev] nonlocal keyword in 2.x? (original) (raw)

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 07:30:44 CET 2009

2009/10/22 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:

What use has such a stepping stone? Why, and (more importantly) when would anybody currently supporting 2.x give up 2.6 and earlier, and only support 2.7? And, if they chose to do so, why would they not move the code base to 3.x right away?

Python 2 support is not only about supporting old versions of Python, but also supporting users of Python2-only modules.

If you have a module that runs only on Python 2.7, the people who for some reason can not move to Python 3 yet, can still use it, by running Python 2.7. For that your module doesn't have to run on 2.6 or 2.5.

So 2.7 support will for the most part be a case not of supporting Python versions, but Python users. Which is a good thing.

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