[Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Porting To Python3

[kunal arora]

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>wrote:

> These links can be useful:
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> https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html
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> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11372190/python-2-and-python-3-dual-development
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> https://pythonhosted.org/six/
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> Gonzalo
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> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:50 AM, kunal arora <kunalarora.135 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> The amount of work needed for either strategy will be almost the same but
>> in my opinion a codebase compatible with both python2 and python3 will
>> actually be harder to maintain as whenever we change something in the core
>> or toolkit we'll have to write polyglot code compatible with both python2
>> AND python3 . Whereas if go with complete port into a new toolkit we will
>> just have to accomodate ourselves in writing code in python3.
>> But if you guys think maintaining another toolkit will be harder, then we
>> can port sugar core and toolkit to python2 and python3 compatible code and
>> follow the strategy mentioned above by Gonzalo.
>>
>> Kunal
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> --
> Gonzalo Odiard
>
> SugarLabs - Software for children learning
>

Thanks for the links. :)
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