Hovmöller: Moving a large and old codebase to Python3

Posted Feb 21, 2018 21:52 UTC (Wed) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334)
In reply to: Hovmöller: Moving a large and old codebase to Python3 by jhoblitt
Parent article: Hovmöller: Moving a large and old codebase to Python3

Well, first of all, because I have never heard about future until now. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be the only reason.

Nice thing about six is that it is so simple and one file, so it doesn't have to be dependency of your project, but it is simply bundled, to be updated whenever you feel like it.

Hovmöller: Moving a large and old codebase to Python3

Posted Feb 21, 2018 22:54 UTC (Wed) by jhoblitt (subscriber, #77733) [Link]

At $day_job, we've migrated several 100K lines of py2, with external scientific users, to py3 using future and it has been fairly painless. We're planning to completely drop support for py2 in the next couple of months (finally...).

Hovmöller: Moving a large and old codebase to Python3

Posted Feb 23, 2018 10:05 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link]

And then there's python-nine, which is python-six turned the right way (according to them).