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[Charles Profitt <indigo196@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matt:

Thanks for the heads up... and the link. I certainly think we have to have this addressed.

Charles


---- Matt Fischer <matthew.fischer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> I just spent a month working on some code that has been ported to 
> python3, and I found that it wasn't terrible, but that finding out which 
> libraries are or are not ported is interesting.  I think that twistd, 
> for example, is still python2 as is python-imaging.  SInce 12.10 will 
> not have python2 on the install media and there is a push to move to 
> python3 as quickly as possible, I think after 0.3 ships we may want to 
> spend some time investigating the pain involved to move to python3.
> 
> One suggest strategy was running our code with the "-3" flag which will 
> warn about things that are not python3 friendly.  We could fix all of 
> these and greatly simplify the move when our dependencies are ported.  
> It was also suggested that all our interfaces need to be "unicode clean" 
> and that good unit tests will be key during this porting effort (which 
> we have!)
> 
> So sometime in September I'm planning on starting this effort for the 
> daemon.  I'd like a goal of 0.4 to be "ready for python3".  Any thoughts?
> 
> Resources:
> 
> This is the "canonical" (not in the sense of the company) python3 
> porting guide:  http://python3porting.com
> 
> A video about dealing with unicode in python3:
> http://pyvideo.org/video/948/pragmatic-unicode-or-how-do-i-stop-the-pain
> 
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> Matthew (Matt) Fischer
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