Re: [gpsd-dev] GPSD and the Python 3 transition

[Fred Wright]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2016, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Fred Wright <address@hidden>:
> > BTW, it seems like a stretch to use "polyglot" in this context.  It's not
> > as if Python 2 and Python 3 are completely different languages.  Though
> > the non-monotonic relation between version numbers and features may make
> > it seem that way. :-)
>
> It's the term #python uses.

Ah, OK.  Still a stretch, though. :-)

BTW, lest you think that the module path issue is unique to OSX:
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address@hidden:~$ gpsfake -T
sys linux2 platform Linux-3.13.0-83-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty: 
WRITE_PAD = 0.00000
address@hidden:~$ python2 $(which gpsfake) -T
sys linux2 platform Linux-3.13.0-83-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty: 
WRITE_PAD = 0.00000
address@hidden:~$ python3 $(which gpsfake) -T
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/gpsfake", line 16, in <module>
    import gps
ImportError: No module named 'gps'
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This is from HEAD at the time of this writing.

Fred Wright