[PyQt] Re: PyQt4 and Python 3.0

Joshua Kugler jkugler at bigfoot.com
Mon Oct 6 18:27:54 BST 2008


Phil Thompson wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:11:19 +0200, Detlev Offenbach
> <detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> will there be PyQt4 support for Python 3.0 once it goes final?
> 
> Not straight away. I will take the opportunity to break backwards
> compatibility (eg. removing QVariant, QString, QChar, QByteArray etc), and
> those changes will be made over a period of time. So it may be a while
> before the API is stable enough for anything other than playing.

Before you do that, please take into consideration Guido's advice:

"Don't change your APIs incompatibly when porting to Py3k."

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=227041

j



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