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Added a python3.0 porting section to the development.txt document
Jorgen Stenarson -
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@@ -444,3 +444,18 b' Most of the release process is automated by the :file:`release` script in the'
444 #. Make sure that the released version of the docs is live on the site.
444 #. Make sure that the released version of the docs is live on the site.
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446 #. Celebrate!
446 #. Celebrate!
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449 Porting to 3.0
450 ==============
451 There are no definite plans for porting of IPython to python 3. The major
452 issue is the dependency on twisted framework for the networking/threading
453 stuff. It is possible that it the traditional IPython interactive console
454 could be ported more easily since it has no such dependency. Here are a few
455 things that will need to be considered when doing such a port especially
456 if we want to have a codebase that works directly on both 2.x and 3.x.
457
458 1. The syntax for exceptions changed (PEP 3110). The old
459 `except exc, var` changed to `except exc as var`. At last
460 count there was 78 occurences of this usage in the codebase
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