Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

[Jesús Guerrero]

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:51:17 +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
<Arfrever.FTA@×××××.com> wrote:
> 2009-09-19 20:22:49 Tobias Klausmann napisał(a):
>> Hi!
>>
>> Aside from the remarks made by others (and speaking as someone
>> who maintains Python software), there is one reason for me to not
>> switch Python 3 to stable yet: lack of compatibility. Software
>> that runs with 3.x will not run with any 2.x version as of today
>
> It's possible (and not too hard) to write code which works with
> Python 3 and 2.6. It might be also possible to support older
> versions, but it would require many ugly exec() calls etc.

"Possible" doesn't equal to "real". Most software won't work with 3.1,
TODAY.
-- 
Jesús Guerrero