[Scons-users] [scons-users] Support for Python 3?

[William Deegan]

Gary,
On Jun 9, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:


> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Marcus Bitzl <mbitzl at googlemail.com> wrote:

> By now it's ok for me to stick with Python 2.7 as there are several other tools without support for Python 3. But in several months I'd like to switch completely (the earlier, the better). Is there anything I could do to help (I'm a firm Python programmer)?

>  

> A lot of the initial work was done a while ago; search the commit messages (or dev list archives) for 2to3 for some info.  Probably the best thing is to start a branch for it; from what I've heard I don't think it's possible to continue to support 2.4 (our current baseline) and 3 at the same time, but there's a lot I at least don't know (Unicode, how far back can we still support -- old python versions are still important, and probably other things).


I'm pretty sure we'd have to move the baseline to be 2.6+ and then the 2to3 tools could work, plus I think you can use some python 3 things in 2.6+. 

-Bill
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://four.pairlist.net/pipermail/scons-users/attachments/20120609/f9c1d182/attachment.htm>