[PATCH 0/9] Add Python 3 support

[Finucane, Stephen]

On 29 Nov 22:10, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> After many nights of wrestling with unicode issues and the many other
> Python2/3 discrepancies, I finally managed to get all unit tests to
> pass under Python 3 (while retaining Python 2.7 support, naturally).
> 
> patchwork needs Python 3 support. Python 3 is a better languages than
> Python 2.7 and will replace it sooner rather than later. Django 2.0 is
> still some years off, but when it arrives it will be the first version
> to support only Python. Even now, some package maintainers are
> packing Python 3-only versions of libraries like Django [1]. This is
> happening and we need to embrace it.
> 
> Because of the sheer amount of code this touches, I'd like some eyes on
> these changes. Most of the changes were generated automatically, but
> there are more than needed to be resolved manually. As such, the former
> can probably be reviewed casually while the others require more
> in-depth review. I'll work on expanding code coverage during my spare
> time this week to see if I can root out any bugs.
> 
> I'd also like an answer to the following questions: do we care about
> Python 2.6? I've included imports for the 'absolute_import' future
> import to retain some support, but I don't have any way to validate the
> functionality without manually installing Python 2.6 (which I'm loathe
> to do).

I'm aware that these changes introduce a lot of coding style violations, but
I already have patches prepared to resolve these (and all other PEP8 issues).
I'll push these once I get this merged.

Stephen