Python 3 Support: A Plan of Action

[Richard Wilbur]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 1:41 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> You're talking about PEP 461 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0461/>.

Indeed, you are correct.

> Unfortunately, the PEP doesn't seem to contain any reference to the
> implementation, but it's probably possible to monkey-patch the bytes
> type, or perhaps derive a bzrbytes(bytes) type[....]

Sounds like a workaround shouldn't be too difficult.

> If there's difficulty in doing the work, Ethan Furman (the PEP author)
> is still active on the Python lists, and would probably be willing to
> provide advice.  ISTR it was actually quite straightforward.
>

Thank you for the referral.  Sounds like Ethan would be the person to
talk to when we get to the point where we find ourselves trying to
accommodate a version of Python which doesn't implement PEP461.  (If
we're especially fortunate, we never find ourselves in that situation
;>)