Python 2 to 3 conversion - embrace the pain

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On 3/15/15, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 15/03/2015 19:05, John Nagle wrote:
>> On 3/14/2015 1:00 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> John Nagle <nagle at animats.com>:
>>>>    I'm approaching the end of converting a large system from Python 2
>>>> to Python 3. Here's why you don't want to do this.
>>>
>>> A nice report, thanks. Shows that the slowness of Python 3 adoption is
>>> not only social inertia.
>>> Marko
>>
>>      Thanks.
>>
>>      Some of the bugs I listed are so easy to hit that I suspect those
>> packages aren't used much.  Those bugs should have been found years
>> ago.  Fixed, even.  I shouldn't be discovering them in 2015.
>>
>>      I appreciate all the effort put in by developers in fixing these
>> problems.  Python 3 is still a long way from being ready for prime
>> time, though.
>>
>> 				John Nagle
>>
>
> This https://python3wos.appspot.com/ says differently.

A "package supporting python 3" is not equivalent to a "package not
introducing new bugs in its python 3 version relative to python 2" and
is also not equivalent to a "package working without issues on python
3".

Cheers,
Daniel


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