[Python-Dev] lib3to2 in the 3.2 standard library?

Sun Feb 21 19:15:42 CET 2010

What would be the advantage of having it in the stdlib? It would put a
stop on further development once it's been released as such, which
strike me as a bad idea for a heuristic tool like 3to2. I would expect
that you will continue to add more rules (and more exceptions) to it
for the foreseeable future. You'll probably want to continue to
maintain it as a 3rd party library so you can release those rules
easily. Sounds like a bad idea to put it also in the stdlib, since you
can't effectively update the stdlib version.
--Guido
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Joe Amenta <amentajo at msu.edu> wrote:
> Hey folks,
> I'm going to write a PEP for inclusion of lib3to2 in the standard library
> for 3.2 and above.  Before do, though, do people have any quick thoughts
> about it?
> My inclination is to get it stabilized beforehand (perhaps during another
> GSoC) by fleshing out the fixer that warns about backwards-incompatible
> features in Python 3 and by finishing up the fix_imports2 fixer, probably
> involving a rewrite.
> http://bitbucket.org/amentajo/lib3to2 is where the source is hosted (there's
> a separate branch for 3.1)
> http://www.startcodon.com/wordpress/?cat=8 is where I blog about it.
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/3to2 is the PyPI page that has both of those
> links.
> --Joe Amenta
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