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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: CML2 with python1
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Hi

> > But it _is_ entirely practical to run CML2 with a bog-standard python
> > 1.5 interpreter. I just did a search/replace for the python2-ism's like
> > 
> >  <x> += <y>           =>  <x> = <x> + <y>, and
> >  <string>.<op>(<arg>) => string.<op>(<string>, <arg>)
> > 
> > Worked around some missing functionality in the older shlex and curses
> > modules and I can now use oldconfig, menuconfig, xconfig, and cmladvent
> > with CML2 and a python1 interpreter. It also still works fine with
> > python2 as well.
> > 
> > 	http://ravel.coda.cs.cmu.edu/cml2-1.9.4-python1.patch (36K)
> > 
> > 36K might sound like a lot, but given the fact that the CML python
> > sources totals about 280KB, it is a pretty small diff, and the whole
> > "but python2 isn't standard in distributions and the license is bad"
> > argument can be dropped and we can get on with life.
> 
> It's a good try.  But there are some important things missing from
> this patch -- notably the Textpad class, which is needed for doing
> popup queries correctly.  
...
> I personally added the ncurses/Textpad/ascii features to the Python
> libraries shipped in 2.0, and I did it for a reason -- to support what
> 
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