[Python-Dev] Smoothing the transition from Python 2 to 3

[Mark Lawrence]

On 10/06/2016 00:43, Brett Cannon wrote:
>
> That's not what I'm saying at all (nor what I think Nick is saying);
> more tooling to ease the transition is always welcomed. The point we are
> trying to make is 2to3 is not considered best practice anymore, and so
> targeting its specific output might not be the best use of your time.
> I'm totally happy to have your fork work out and help give warnings for
> situations where runtime semantics are the only way to know there will
> be a problem that static analyzing tools can't handle and have the
> porting HOWTO updated so that people can run their test suite with your
> interpreter to help with that final bit of porting. I personally just
> don't want to see you waste time on warnings that are handled by the
> tools already or ignore the fact that six, modernize, and futurize can
> help more than 2to3 typically can with the easy stuff when trying to
> keep 2/3 compatibility. IOW some of us have become allergic to the word
> "2to3" in regards to porting. :) But if you want to target 2to3 output
> then by all means please do and your work will still be appreciated.
>

Given the above and that 2to3 appears to be unsupported* is there a case 
for deprecating it?

*  There are 46 outstanding issues on the bug tracker.  Is the above the 
reason for this, I don't know?

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Mark Lawrence