[Python-Dev] The Breaking of distutils and PyPI for Python 3000?

Fri Mar 21 22:40:11 CET 2008

> | try:
> | bytes
> | except NameError:
> | bytes = str
> |
> | somewhere, then write the code as I proposed above.
>> This is exactly the sort of thing that should be and I expect will be in 
> the conversion docs. 

That expectation might be unfounded (in the sense that it might not be
written at all). I only happened to learn about that approach as I
was converting Django to 3k.
I'll happily put my experience in doing so into an email message,
but I won't sit down and write a text document.
Regards,
Martin