solipsis at pitrou
Nov 3, 2009, 1:56 PM
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Brett Cannon <brett <at> python.org> writes:
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> I'm afraid there is some FUD going around here, which is
> understandable since no one wants to burn a ton of time on something
> that will be difficult or take a lot of time. But I have not heard
> anyone in this email thread (or anywhere for that matter) say that
> they tried a port in earnest and it turned out to be difficult.
One obvious example is the C extensions for the interpreter itself.
The code for those C extensions is actually almost the same from 2.x to 3.x. The
two main changes are the module initialization sequence (see PEP 3121) and the
bytes->unicode change for special methods such as tp_repr.
Regards
Antoine.
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