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My last few Python projects have started out as Python 3, but ended up as 2 due to missing library support.

Would it be at all feasible to enable Python 3 to import Python 2 code? I imagine this could be done without making Python 3 fully backwards compatible, but I might be wrong.




That'll be the crux. When you can run most/all existing python 2 code under python 3 we'll see the transition. Until then most of us have no plans to even look at python 3.


+1, but I'm ont sure how that's going to work. Even if you support Py2 syntax, some of the internals are different and might cause code to misbehave, especially the str/unicode/utf stuff.




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