Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 05:53:59PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> 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.
>
Cool, thanks Moritz.
It's just the API stability which is left then. Hopefully Matthias has
some more info on this, or we could just have a big fat warning
somewhere that tells people not to rely on it.
Neil
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