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On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Brian Curtin <brian.curtin at rackspace.com>wrote:

>  On Jul 24, 2013, at 1:27 PM, Eric Windisch <eric at cloudscaling.com>
>  wrote:
>
>
>   Speaking of preferred ways to port, has there been any discussion about
>> which version takes precedence when we have to do different things? For
>> example, with imports, should we be trying the 2.x name first and falling
>> back to 3.x on ImportError, or vice versa?
>>
>
>  Are we having it now? My belief here is we should be following the
> principle of "ask forgiveness, not permission". Try Python 3 and then
> fallback to Python 2 whenever possible.
>
>
>  That's my belief and preference as well.
>

It may not be possible to create a hard-and-fast rule on this. There was a
case this week where the use of the "configparser" library caused a parse
error under Python 2 when "ConfigParser" worked properly.

Doug


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