Greg Ward wrote: > On 09 February 2003, Jeff Bauer said: > >>I'm not sure if my singular experience should be enough bias >>Quixote towards Python 2.1 compatibility, especially if 2.2 >>offers substantial convenience to the Quixote team. > > > I think maintaining 2.1 compatibility is worth it, simply because of the > installed base of Zope servers. I'll do my bit by reverting True/False > to 1/0 now. > > We run both 2.1 and 2.2 on our production servers. 2.1 is the default python which runs our zeos. we just call python2.2 when/if we need 2.2 functionality. re True/False: would it be worthwile to do what i see in other modules and try a true assignment in a try block? try: a = True except: # 2.1 or below False = 0 True = 1 del a though for 0/1 i guess its readable enough and keeps from doing one extra lookup. Tom