[Python-Dev] Porting Stories (was PEP 414 (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] Porting Stories (was PEP 414 - Unicode Literals for Python 3)

Brian Curtin brian at python.org
Tue Feb 28 16:29:20 CET 2012

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 09:04, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

We really need to stop saying that porting to Python 3 is hard, or should be delayed.  It's not in the vast majority of cases.  Yes, there are warts, and we should continue to improve Python 3 so it gets easier, but by no means is it impossible for most code to be working very nicely on Python 3 today.

I've been singing and dancing about the ease of porting for a while now, but it's mostly thanks to the fact that I never had to do any Unicode tomfoolery. Now with this PEP, the game gets easier for a lot more people.

Does anyone have a good porting experience they'd like to share, which I could maybe use as a PR effort for us? Barry, I know you wrote some pretty solid coverage of your DBus port. Anyone else? Personal projects or work stuff (assuming its ok to share). blog.python.org has been asleep for a while and a good porting testimonial might be a way to jumpstart it, or I can get it on the python.org front page.

If you have anything to share on that front, please contact me directly.

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