Re: Python 3.0 plans

[Johan Dahlin <johan gnome org>]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 12:37 -0300, Johan Dahlin wrote:
> > Greetings

> Couple thoughts:
>
>   - Do things more Pythonesque.  Looking at Pango bindings, for example
> replace all to_string() methods with __str__.  Same for compare(),
> equal(), etc.  Or should it be in addition?

This can already be done as it is, there's no need to break the API, it's 
just syntactic sugar. eg __str__ can be implemented to as to_string().
Is it actually worth the pain to remove the old names?
Perhaps, I'm unsure.

>   - Finish and use gobject-introspection.

gobject-introspection isn't quite finished yet, but hopefully it'll be ready 
before Python 3.0 is finished.

Johan