[Python-Dev] 2.x vs 3.x survey results (original) (raw)

Dan Stromberg drsalists at gmail.com
Sun Jan 5 05:48:40 CET 2014

On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:20 PM, John Yeuk Hon Wong <gokoproject at gmail.com> wrote:

I think it helps Luca and many others (including myself) if there is a reference of the difference between 2.7 and Python 3.3+. There are PEPs and books, but is there any such long list of references?

If not, should we start investing in one? I know the basic one such as xrange and range, items vs iteritems, izip vs zip that sort of uniform syntax/library inclusion difference. If there is such reference available?

This isn't comprehensive, but it does cover the issues I ran into while writing a backup program (of about 7,000 lines) that runs on 2.x and 3.x, unmodified:

http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~dstromberg/Intro-to-Python/

Specifically, I mean the "Writing code to run on Python 2.x and 3.x" document.

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