[Python-Dev] readd u'' literal support in 3.3? (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Dec 9 11:03:41 CET 2011

On 12/8/2011 8:39 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote:

It's not the speed of 2to3 per se; this seems very reasonable for a tool of its type > It's the overall process, which currently involves running 2to3 on an entire codebase (for example, using setup.py with flags to run 2to3 during setup).

Oh. That explains the 'slow' complaint.

However, 2to3 tools could be developed which are based on 2to3/lib2to3 and are incremental in nature; then as you edit and save a file, its processed version could be available very shortly afterwards (since we only need to translate the file that was saved)

I had assumed that people were aleady running 2to3 on a per edited file basis already. On a multi-core machine, I would think it possible to run 2to3 and then a test on the result in a separate process while tests are running on the 2.x version.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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