[Biopython-dev] Python 3 porting

[Tiago Antão]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> This also requires a sprinkling of decode/encode calls in SffIO.py when reading/
> writing the binary file - I'm not sure how to get that automatically with 2to3.

Would it be problematic if the 2.x code had that? 2.6 at least
supports decode/encode. Of course I do not know the implications in
code that is highly string intensive like SeqIO stuff... but it other
places (test cases, very simple) it seems to work OK.