neal norwitz vapkwvjqgmailcom mon apr 14 2008 256 pm christian heimes wrote good idea 3to2 project going make backporting iopy new stuff less painful much faster iopy backport spent time removing annotations replacing u needs done remove funtion annotation add object empty class definition replace class eggmetaclassspam class eggobjectn__metaclass__ spam add __future__ imports print_function unicode literals anything else iteration dict methods eg keys iterkeys mapzipfilter returning iterator rather list int int long str basestring str unicode __bool__ __nonzero__ execexecfile input rawinput things fixer 2to3 would also require one 3to2 things work backwards compatible ways like applyhas_key removal etc dont need 3to2 fixer although 3to2 fixers probably pretty low priority real likely used python code base still needed general user code n _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 082500 0700 pythondev r62342 pythonbranchespy3kobjectsbytesobjectc