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Re: [Python-Dev] 2to3, 3to2: official status
by Ben Finney other posts by this author
Nov 4 2009 6:50PM messages near this date
Re: [Python-Dev] 2to3, 3to2: official status | Re: [Python-Dev] 2to3, 3to2: official status
"Martin v. Löwis" <martin@[...].de>  writes:

>  Ben Finney wrote:
>  > "Martin v. Löwis" <martin@[...].de> writes:
>  > 
>  >> Well, 3to2 would then be an option for you: use Python 3 as the
>  >> source language.
>  > 
>  > I was under the impression that 2to3 was officially supported as
>  > part of Python, but 3to2 was a third-party tool. […] Is it an
>  > official part of Python?
> 
>  No, the status is exactly as you describe it.

Okay. It's probably best for anyone with their Python developer hat on
(which, in this forum, is all the time for any Python developer) to make
the status of 3to2 clear when recommending it to people concerned about
future plans.

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Ben Finney

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