[py3porters-devel] Porting of apt-listchanges to Python 3

[James Lu]

Hi,

Based on what Alexandre wrote in his previous mail, I don't know if 
continued Python 2 support is necessary for apt-listchanges, since no 
other package depends on the actual source code. That said, it's a 
decision for the maintainers to make and not me.

Either way, I agree that six is useful in migrating imports, but I 
didn't want to introduce any extra dependencies myself. I usually do 
imports manually too.

Best,
James

On 03/06/2015 8:58 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Jun 02, 2015, at 07:05 PM, James Lu wrote:
>
>> I also adjusted many imports using "try, import Y, except ImportError, import
>> X as Y" clauses, which preserve compatibility even though many libraries have
>> renamed in Python 3.
> This is one area where I think the six package really helps.  Generally I
> don't use much of six, preferring to handcraft bilingual compatibility, but
> that can get pretty tedious for renamed imports.  So if I have a lot of these,
> I'll add a dependency on six and use their nice shim for stdlib imports.
>
> Cheers,
> -Barry
>
>
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