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Porting Python Code to 3.0
Rough outline of what needs to be covered
- Using 2to3. (-> Benjamin)
- Bringing code up to shape to work with 2.6 and 2to3->3.0.
- What about 2.3/2.4/2.5 compatibility?
Martin's notes from psycopg2
- bytes vs. strings 1. Design decisions needs to be taken what exactly must be represented as bytes, and what as strings. In many cases, that was easy for psycopg, except for the question how SQL queries are represented. It appears clear that they are plain text, however, the Postgres API requires them to be transmitted in the connection encoding. I still decided to represent them internally in Unicode, but converting them to the connection encoding as early as possible probably would have worked as well.
- bytes vs. strings 2. To keep the implementation portable across 2.x and 3.x, I added a number of macros. Most useful was Text_FromUTF8, particularly when applied to the (many) string literals. It is defined as PyString_FromString for 2.x, and PyUnicode_FromString for 3.x.
- RO is gone, you need to use READONLY (which also works in 2.x).
- PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT needs to be used for types. I define it for 2.x if it isn't already defined.
- the buffer object is gone; I use memoryview in 3.x.
- various tests where in the code of the form if version_major == and version_minor > 4 (say, or 5) This will break for 3.x; you have to write if (version_major == 2 and version_minor > 4) or version_major > 2
- module initialization is different. I moved the majority of the code into a static function, which then gets conditionally called from either the 2.x or 3.x init routine.
- Python code 1: I used the 2to3 support in distutils
- Python code 2: setup.py needs to run in both versions. I had to replace popen2 with subprocess if available. Also, map() now returns an iterator, which I explicitly convert into list, and so on.
- Python code 3: the test suite doesn't get installed, and hence not auto-converted with 2to3 support. I explicitly added a 2to3 conversion into the test runner, which copies the py3 version of the test into a separate directory.
Links
- PortingDjangoToPy3k
- Porting Durus / QP / Qpy / Dulcinea, using approach targeting Python 2 and Python 3 off same code base - packages released but not in pypi yet.