[Python-Dev] Porting Ideas

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 13:02:00 -0600
Brian Curtin <brian.curtin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:51, Prashant Kumar <contactprashantat at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hello everyone. My name is Prashant. I and my friend Zubin recently
> > ported 'Configobj'. It would be great if somebody can suggest about
> > any utilities or scripts that are being widely used and need to be
> > ported.
> 
> http://onpython3yet.com/ might be helpful to you. It orders the projects on
> PyPI with the most dependencies which are not yet ported to 3.x.

I don't know who did that page but it seems like there's some FUD there.

simplejson, ctypes, pysqlite and others are available in the 3.x
stdlib. Mercurial is a command-line tool and doesn't need to be ported
to be used for Python 3 projects. setuptools is supplanted by
distribute which should Python 3 compatible.

And I'm not sure what this package called "Python" is (“a high-level
object-oriented programming language”? like Java?), but I'm pretty sure
I've heard there's a Python 3 compatible version.

(granted, it's probably less FUD than stupid automation)

Regards

Antoine.