[Python-Dev] PEP 414 - Unicode Literals for Python 3 (original) (raw)

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 07:08:25 CET 2012

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 13:10, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

We might be at cross purposes here. I don't see how Distribute helps, because the use case I'm talking about is not about distributing or installing stuff, but iteratively changing and testing code which needs to work on 2.6+, 3.2 and 3.3+.

Make sure you can run the tests with python setup.py test, and you're "in the butter", as we say in Sweden. :-)

If the 2.x code depends on having u'xxx' literals, then 3.2 testing will potentially involve running a fixer on all files in the project every time a change is made, writing to a separate directory, or else a fixer which is integrated into the editing environment so it knows what changed. This is painful

Sure, and distribute does this for you.

http://python3porting.com/2to3.html

//Lennart

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