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On 30/03/2015 02:22, Ben Finney wrote:
> Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes:
>
>> He reported hitting more snags than some of us might expect purely
>> from the Python 3 propaganda ("oh, just run the 2to3 utility and it
>> does everything for you").
>
> Propaganda?
>
> Are you referring to the official guidelines for migrating from Python 2
> to Python 3? The official guide at
> <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html> doesn't support
> that assertion.
>
> The ‘2to3’ program is presented as a tool to assist. I don't know of
> anything official saying “it does everything for you”. Even when it was
> first introduced it was only ever presented as a *start* to the porting
> effort.
>

Not much of a tool if the 47 outstanding issues on the bug tracker are 
anything to go by.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence