Re: [bch-discuss] Python 2.0

[Michael H. <mw...@ca...>]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Toby Dickenson wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:28:46 +0100 (BST), Michael Hudson
> <mw...@ca...> wrote:
> 
> >> Is anyone looking at adding support for the new instructions in python
> >> 2.0?
> >
> >I've been meaning to do it for a while.  If you beat me to it, I certainly
> >won't hold it against you!
> 
> Heres a patch for the two instructions that I am using (PRINT_ITEM_TO
> and PRINT_NEWLINE_TO), and which raises a NotImplemented error for all
> of those other new ones that I dont yet care about.

Cool.  I'll check it in, as they say, momentarily.  Tests fail at the
moment, basically due to the "from x import y as z" patch.  I'm on the
case (but going to the theatre in an hour, and haven't eaten yet...).

> (If anyones interested, Ive been experimenting with allowing file-like
> objects to choose their own character encoding when a unicode string
> is printed)

Cool.  How does bytecodehacks help, out of curiosity?

> Ive also been niggled by the way bytecodehacks imports its sibling
> modules.... it assumes that the bytecodehacks package is installed as
> a root package (Its more convenient for me to install it as a
> sub-package below my package) Would you accept a patch to change all
> of the 
> from bytecodehacks.ops import *
> into 
> from ops import *
> ?

Now I've actually read http://www.python.org/doc/essays/packages.html
properly, yes.

Cheers!

M.