[reportlab-users] ReportLab / Python 3000

[Andy Robinson]

Hi everybody,

Prompted by Dinu's reminder on releases, I would like to get some
opinions on Python 3.0.

I'm curious to know if anyone here has plans to move rapidly onto
Python 3.0? It's now in alpha 2 and slated for release this summer,
although not many other libraries are following suit.

We also have plans for a refactored version of our own libraries,
which would break old code and perhaps change some significant
concepts and which might take a year to mature, so one obvious
approach is to do that in Python 3.0.  We would then have a lot less
code to port as we could start with just a small core.

We could possibly also have a totally new package name so it could
coexist  (any better ideas than "import rl3k"?)

Don't panic - we would of course maintain the 2.x releases with bug
fixes and small improvements, as we have been doing for the last
couple of years, because all our own solutions run on it and it would
take years to migrate our existing customers.

Best Regards,


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