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