thomas wouters fgxflgpythonorg mon mar 24 2008 230 jeanpaul calderone wrote mon 24 mar 2008 001413 0100 martin v löwis martinvloewisde wrote still seeing case libraries small number people developing making regular well defined releases world talking looks give examples software perhaps talking closed source software im sure software talking say work twisted divmod software id quite happy see feature either part migration path towards 3k _or_ feature entirely merits would useful im bit curious thomas said sort thing results fragile code twisted using __future__ imports years theyve never problem twisted currently supports python 23 python 25 thing thats really difficult subtle changes library behavior syntax wasnt talking future imports talking writing python 26 code expecting work way 30 without modification requires programmers working project knowledge 30 26 differ cant even look code tell 26 30 differ since lennart talking specifically projects large number developers believe safe assumption make simple preprocessor step involving 2to3 requires knowledge alternatively preprocessor step involving 3to2 think result better code unfortunately dont time work either anytime soon thomas wouters hi im signature virus copy signature file help spread wed 06 aug 2008 225341 0100 pythondev proposal __future__ import unicode_string_literals