Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 03:54:56PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:25:30AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > >Sometimes 2to3 will find a place in your source code that needs to be
> > >changed, but 2to3 cannot fix automatically. In this case, 2to3 will
> > >print a warning beneath the diff for a file. You should address the
> > >warning in order to have compliant 3.x code.
> > 
> > so what? 2to3 will never be a tool which results should be used without inspection.
> > 
> 
> So if a patch comes out that fixes a security bug in foo.py(2), that is
> incompatable with 2to3, then it needs fixing twice. Which is why I've
> asked the secruity team for input.

I don't think that's a problem we need to be concerned about. 

Cheers,
        Moritz