Python 2 support

Using 2.7.15. My gut tells me this lib is python3 only but then I wonder why pip was able to install it in my python 2 env.

File "lib/python2.7/site-packages/stackprinter/__init__.py", line 163
    print(format(thing, **kwargs), file=file)

[cknd]

@unformatt After careful deliberation / procrastination, I think I don’t want to maintain Python 2 support myself. I’ll keep this issue open so people who need it can discover your Py 2 fork

[ghost]

Here is the perspective of someone who tried to get this working with Python 2 and failed:

I believe it’s important enough to explicitly state in the README that this is a Python 3 only package, since the README is the first piece of info that a new user gets exposed to. While Python 2 is going to become less and less relevant really soon, it’ll be a while till I (and probably some others) will stop instinctively think that if the README of a Python package doesn’t explicitly state supported Python versions, then it works with both 2 and 3. In my case I have installed stackprinter through pip, tried to use it in a Python 2 codebase, got it failing and only then checked setup.py, which explicitly states that this is Python 3 only.

As for the fork with Python 2 support, explicitly mentioning it in the README would probably be nice too. And how do I install it? Just

pip install git+https://github.com/unformatt/stackprinter/

? I am noticing that setup.py of the fork still claims Python 3 only is supported, so I suppose that has to be changed too? But I’d be happy to continue the talk about the fork in an issue linked to the fork, not here.