[Python-ideas] Smoothing transition to Python 3

[Paul Moore]

On 4 June 2016 at 12:34, Neil Schemenauer <nas-pythonideas at arctrix.com> wrote:
> On 2016-06-04, Paul Moore wrote:
>> Who do you propose develops that version? Will you do so to help the
>> next group of people in your situation?
>
> I'm proposing to help.  Here is a very early start:
>
> https://github.com/nascheme/ppython

Cool!

>> But the people who've asked for such a thing in the past have
>> apparently never been sufficiently convinced it was a worthwhile
>> effort to put their own time into it.
>
> Given the choice of porting your code to Python 3 or developing this
> transitional Python to help you, it is easy to see why people choose
> the former option.  However, if you look at the millions of lines of
> Python 2 code that is yet to be ported, I think the idea has some merit.

Sounds like you know where you want to go with this, I hope you get
the interest to keep the project going. I can't say I'd recommend
people go this route myself, but maybe that's because I'm not looking
at projects on the scale you are - typically the things I've been
involved in haven't been that hard to port (I work mostly on
libraries, and working in the common Python 2/3 subset, with the aid
of libraries like six, has been a perfectly practical solution for
me).

Paul