[Scons-users] [scons-users] Support for Python 3?

[Nicholas Bastin]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Joel B. Mohler <joel at kiwistrawberry.us> wrote:

> I believe you are incorrect on this assertion unless I'm just confused about

> what you are saying.  In fact, SQLAlchemy does what Greg is setting out and

> I can only assume it is successful (I haven't personally used it on python

> 3, but SQLAlchemy is so good on python 2 that I'm sure the python 3 support

> is not rubbish).  See the 2to3 bits of

> https://bitbucket.org/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/src/setup.py


Using 2to3 as a regular tool is definitely fraught with problems, and
at the very least prevents you from leveraging useful 3.0 tools in
your 3.0 codebase (since you don't have a 3.0 codebase).  It should
definitely *not* be used as a strategy for the long term.

--
Nick