Re: Python 2.6

Il giorno ven, 09/01/2009 alle 11.17 +0900, James Henstridge ha scritto:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Federico Di Gregorio <fog-NGVKUo/i/[email protected]> wrote:
> > Try to compile it and report any bugs. I am aboiut to release a
> > final version (this weekend probably) before starting the port to
> > 3.0 (most of the work was done by Martin, I just need to apply the
> > patches to the updated code base and test it).
> 
> I assume we'll still be doing Python 2.x releases of psycopg right?
> Having psycopg support Python 3 is great as it is at the base of many
> application stacks.  However, it is going to take years to get some
> stacks ported to Python 3 (e.g. Zope).  In that time we'll still need
> a database adapter for Python 2.x.

Sure. Martin sent me a patch that uses 2to3 to have one version of
psycopg support both 2.x and 3. I still have to have a good look at it
but seems fine on first sight.

> While it is not considered a good idea to try to support both 2.x and
> 3.x in Python code, the differences in the C APIs are much smaller.  I
> wonder if there are things that we could do to the Python 2.x code
> base to make it easier to back port fixes/features from the Python 3.x
> version?

See above.

federico

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