<div class="im"><martin <at> <a href="http://v.loewis.de" target="_blank">v.loewis.de</a>> writes:<br>
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> One thing that the PEP will certainly achieve is to spread the myth that<br>
> you cannot port to Python 3 if you also want to support Python 2.5. That's<br>
> because people will accept the "single source" approach as the one right<br>
> way, and will accept that this only works well with Python 2.6.<br>
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</div>Let's hope not. We can mitigate that by spelling out in the docs that there's<br>
no one right way, how to choose which approach is best for a given project, and<br>
so on.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Changes to <a href="http://docs.python.org/howto/pyporting.html">http://docs.python.org/howto/pyporting.html</a> are welcome. I tried to make sure it exposed all possibilities with tips on how to support as far back as Python 2.5. </div>