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As a user, you may not appreciate six, but popular libraries like Django would've never made the jump without six.py;
by jeeyoungk 10mo ago
As a user, you may not appreciate six, but popular libraries like Django would've never made the jump without six.py;
- masklinn 10mo agoI’m not talking as a user, I’m talking as a person who ported 350kLOCs of python from 2 to 3. Django absolutely would have been ported: it was ported without six by Vinay Sajip (building on an earlier work of Martin von Löwis). In fact a limited shim layer was initially committed based on Vinay’s efforts: https://github.com/django/django/commit/5e6ded2e58597fa324c550bad35a30ee630ce223 https://github.com/django/django/commit/5e6ded2e58597fa324c5... The team ultimately decided to use and re-export six for the convenience of the ecosystem, not out of any sort of necessity.