[Twisted-Python] [RFC] Introducing six as a dependency

Duncan McGreggor oubiwann at twistedmatrix.com
Thu Jul 26 12:21:40 EDT 2012


On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Vladimir Perić <vlada.peric at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> as part of my work on porting Twisted to Python 3, I have considered
> using the six library[1] to help with some issues. six is basically a
> compatibility library - same idea as our twisted.python.compat module.
> Now, one approach is to add six as a dependency of Twisted - it is a
> very small library so hardly a problem; on the other hand, it is an
> additional dependency. The other approach would be to copy the
> required code over to the t.p.compat module (six' license[2] is
> basically "do what you want with this code"), but this is additional
> work and we might miss out on the eventual bugfix (though there has
> only been a couple since the project started). In general, I have
> heard good things about six.
>
> As a note, currently, I would need at least the reraise and exec_
> functions from six; additionally, a lot of the things from the
> six.moves package are useful. And, of course, there might be other
> compatibility functions which I'd need, I just haven't encountered yet
> (I do only use these if absolutely required, though).
>
> What do you all think? In the end, it boils down to "additional
> dependency" vs. "less code to maintain".
>
> Personally, I could go either way - using six makes things slightly
> easier, but I could just copy over the code we need and be done with
> it.

FWIW, I'm +1 on copying the bits we need into Twisted and +0 on adding
a new dep.

d

>
> [1] http://packages.python.org/six/
> [2] https://bitbucket.org/gutworth/six/src/d81f633c45dd/LICENSE
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> Vladimir Perić
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