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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Dec 13 17:21:04 CET 2011

On Dec 13, 2011, at 05:24 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:28:31 +0100 "Laurence Rowe" <l at lrowe.co.uk> wrote:

The approach that most people seem to have settled on for porting libraries to Python 3 is to make a single codebase that is compatible with both Python 2 and Python 3, perhaps making use of the six library. Do you have evidence that "most" people have settled on that approach? (besides the couple of library writers who have commented on this thread)

I'm not sure there's any settling at all when it comes to Python 3 porting yet. ;)

Sometimes, one code base works better, other times 2to3 works well. I tend to use the latter on pure-Python setuptools-based projects, and the former on projects with C extensions, autoconf-based libraries.

-Barry

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