Django ported to Python3!

[Matt Joiner]

As long as we can dump python 2, a big congrats to anyone who makes this
possible. Thanks martin
On Dec 3, 2011 5:51 PM, "Stefan Behnel" <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:

> Ron, 02.12.2011 22:47:
>
>> It looks like Vinay Sajip has succeeded in porting Django to Python3
>> (in a shared code base for Python 3.2 and Python 2.7). This is an
>> astoundingly good job, done very fast and is big news.
>> See https://groups.google.com/**forum/#!topic/django-**
>> developers/XjrX3FIPT-U<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-developers/XjrX3FIPT-U>
>> and the actual code is at Bitbucket https://bitbucket.org/vinay.**
>> sajip/django <https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/django>
>>
>> With NumPy and SciPy already ported, and with Matplotlib almost there,
>> maybe PIL and others will follow shortly. This could be a turning
>> point, or a milestone, or whatever you want to call it. Vinay is  a
>> hero who should be thanked and congratulated!
>>
>
> Note that most of the work was done by Martin von Löwis, quite a while
> back in the early days of Python 3.x.
>
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/**PortingDjangoTo3k<http://wiki.python.org/moin/PortingDjangoTo3k>
>
> He also did a huge amount of lobbying to get the changes accepted before
> the time that the project originally envisioned. The original plans of the
> Django project were to only *start* the porting after dropping support for
> Python 2.5 somewhere in the future. Martin made it rather clear with his
> patch (and keeps reiterating it wherever he can) that you can support both
> in one code base, even in a project as large as Django.
>
> Stefan
>
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