[Python-3000] Python 3.0 Porting Strategies

Thu Mar 27 09:23:21 CET 2008

Charles Merriam wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote:
> ...
>> For new code, however, there is an alternative strategy that doesn't
>> involve 2to3 at all, which is to write code in the "greatest common
>> subset" of 2.6 and 3.0.
>>>> As Lennart Regbro pointed out earlier, this common subset is actually
>> quite large (larger than Guido originally intended, I think), and you
>> can write some fairly substantial applications in it.
>> Ok, I'll bite. How can I write the greatest common denominator of this code:
> print "Hello World!" # yes, that needs to be Unicode.

# This code will run on both 2.6 and 3.0
# And the string will be Unicode in both
from __future__ import unicode_literals
print "Hello World!"
Cheers,
Nick.
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