I'm sure that the main problem is that people don't search. Surprisingly, it's often easier to complain "there is no X" than to try to search for a solution to X.
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> > Date: Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:32 AM > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] 2.x vs 3.x survey results > To: python-dev@python.org > > > On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 11:23:45 -0600 > Brian Curtin <br...@python.org> wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 3:08 AM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 5:20 AM, John Yeuk Hon Wong >> > <gokoproj...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I think it helps Luca and many others (including myself) if there is a >> >> reference of the difference between 2.7 and Python 3.3+. >> > >> > Not specifically for 2.7 and 3.3, no. This is a fairly complete list: >> > >> > http://python3porting.com/differences.html >> > >> >> There are PEPs and books, but is there any such long list of >> >> references? >> >> >> >> If not, should we start investing in one? I know the basic one such as >> >> xrange and range, items vs iteritems, izip vs zip that sort of uniform >> >> syntax/library inclusion difference. >> >> >> >> If there is such reference available? >> > >> > I'm honestly despairing that people still don't know that there is a >> > free book on the topic. I have no idea how to increase the knowledge >> > on this point. >> >> I think we collectively need better SEO, or something like that. >> Python 3 would be in a better place if people actually knew the >> current state of things, versus asking people on "Hacker News". > > Perhaps there should be a porting guide as a prominent chapter in > http://docs.python.org/3/ ? > > The (incognito) Google query "porting from python 2 to 3" pops up this as > the first result: > > http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/pyporting.html > > 2nd place is the wiki.python.org page; 3 & 4 are from Lennart's book. > > So the SEO is fine, it seems - at least in this case. Similar queries > provide similar results. If anyone comes up with a resonable query that > gives bad results, we can do some lightweight SEO on it by adding a few > links here and there. > > Eli > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
