Porting your code to Python 3
The following is a write-up of the presentation I gave to a group of Python developers at Montreal Python 5 on February 26th. This is basically a HTML-fied copy of the notes I prepared before the presentation. I haven’t done editing, so expect a few grammar mistakes there and there. My complete presentation slides are available here. A video was taped should be released in the upcoming weeks (I will post a link here when I finally get my hands on it). Please note that if you’re looking for more complete guide about Python 3 (and more accurate), I highly recommend that you read the What’s New In Python 3.0 document and the Python Enhancement Proposals numbered above 3000.
You may wonder why we did Python 3 afterall. The motivation was simple: to fix old warts and to clean up the language before it was too late. Python 3 is not complete rewrite of Python; it still pretty much the good old Python you all love. But I am not going to lie. There are many changes in Python 3; many that will cause pain when you will port your code; and so many that I won’t be able to cover them all in this talk. That is why I will focus only on the changes that will need to know to port your code. If you want to learn about all new and shiny features, you will need to visit the python.org’s website and the online documentation of Python 3.
In the second part of this presentation, I will go over the steps needed to port a real library to Python 3. Hopefully, this part will give you a basic knowledge and tools to tackle the problems linked to the migration.
Finally, I will give you an insider’s view of the upcoming changes in Python 3.1, which suppose to be released later this year.
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