[Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

[Michael Foord]

  On 07/09/2010 15:02, exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
> On 01:33 pm, phd at phd.pp.ru wrote:
>> Hello. Thank you for the offer!
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 06:36:10PM +0530, Prashant Kumar wrote:
>>> My name is Prashant Kumar and I wish to contribute to the Python 
>>> development
>>> process by helping convert certain existing python
>>> over to python3k.
>>>
>>> Is there anyway I could obtain a list of libraries which need to be 
>>> ported
>>> over to python3k, sorted by importance(by importance i mean
>>> packages which serve as a dependency for larger number of packages 
>>> being
>>> more important).
>>
>> As there is already Python 3.2 alpha, the core of Python has already
>> been ported - and this mailing list is for discussion of development 
>> of the
>> very Python, not about working on 3rd-party libraries.
>
> How about the email package?

Right, and there are other standard library modules (cgi, ftplib, 
nntplib, etc) that either need fixing or auditing as to how they handle 
bytes / strings.

Michael

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