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If the python project had something like that, the current python 3 situation could maybe have been avoided.

• vessenes 15y ago
  The python 3 situation is really the python 2.4/2.5/2.6/2.7/3 situation. I'm not sure why or how it happened, but python is brutally fragmented in the real world across OS'es, in my experience.
• almost 15y ago
  Python has 2to3 which is the same kind of thing
  • Queue29 15y ago
    There are a lot of things 2to3 can't fix, so the user has to go back and change things by hand anyway.
    • almost 15y ago
      That appears to be true for gofix too and probably any tool of that kind...
      • rogpeppe 15y ago
        it's less of a problem for gofix because Go's static typing means it's easy to be much more precise about which methods and functions are actually being used.