Fw: PEP 461: "Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray" accepted

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Fri Mar 28 12:33:04 CDT 2014


On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 09:14 +0100, Giovanni Gherdovich wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I understood that this was the major obstacle to port mercurial to py3k,
> and it seems that PEP 461 has now been accepted:

Don't get your hopes up, it's merely 'a' major obstacle.

After a year of poking at it, Augie has gotten as far as getting 'hg'
with no options to run. This morning he said on IRC "literally best
case, a very slow port in about 18 months".

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.




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