Re: [Python-Dev] 2to3, 3to2: official status
by Collin Winter other posts by this author
Nov 4 2009 7:09PM messages near this date
Re: [Python-Dev] 2to3, 3to2: official status
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Re: [Python-Dev] 2to3, 3to2: official status
Hi Ben,
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@[...].au> wrote:
> "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. [â¦] 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.
Are you implying that we shouldn't recommend 3to2 to people wanting to
develop in Py3k and back-translate to 2.x?
Thanks,
Collin Winter
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