[Pywikipedia-l] Why not Python 3?

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 We would lost our backward compatibility for our scrips. There are some bot owner running py 2.4 and I really would be glad if we could deny our support for this version. First let's merge to the rewrite branch based on 2.5 and let the old stuff behind us. I guess this will be done next year ;)

xqt


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Von:     Bináris <wikiposta at gmail.com>
An:      Pywikipedia discussion list <pywikipedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Datum:   06.10.2010 17:57
Betreff: [Pywikipedia-l] Why not Python 3?

> Hi!
> 
> It is obvious, that we will have to let Python 2.x to go one day. Now the
> developers have been working on Pywikipedia 2 for a long time, and are
> looking forward to release it. But what then? How long will itt work?
> 
> In the past weeks I was dealing with Python very much, and I have ideas on
> 2
> vs. 3. I tried to guess the reason not to use Python 3. As far as I see,
> the
> main problem is with the big quantity of u"..."s. But I they can probably
> be
> converted py the 2to3 module. So what is the main reason to keep 2.x?
> 
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> Bináris
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