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Upgrade to Python 2.6? #5

Closed jcranch closed 13 years ago

jcranch commented 13 years ago

Obviously, we're limited by what runs on the server. But it would be nice to take advantage of more modern Python features. Benefits include the following:

It would give us use of "multiprocessing" library for multithreading, thus speeding up on-server conversions;
We could employ the "with" idiom to safely and transparently open and close the database and the multiprocessing pool;
Um, anything else?

jcranch commented 13 years ago

For demo purposes, I branched the code last night to create a python2.6 branch and make lots of stuff much simpler by using lots of "with"s.

I'd happily put this on github, but it's not clear to me that I have the right to create a branch. Any hints?

chris321 commented 13 years ago

Something else: An up-to-date version of lxml would be very beneficial.

chris321 commented 13 years ago

Done and working.