[Biopython-dev] Python 2 and 3 migration thoughts

[Peter Cock]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> A new pull request for people to comment on, which eliminates
> all but two important fixers. As a bonus this makes installation
> under Python 3 much much quicker:
>
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/250
>

I take it there are no objections to me merging this work?
If not, I will try to do it tomorrow (Sunday) or early next week,
and move on to the final issues before we can drop 2to3
(which I do not anticipate being problematic).

Once we've dropped 2to3, I would like us to a do a beta
release (by mid November?), and then bar any problems,
ship that as Biopython 1.63 (hopefully by late November).

(There are plenty of things pending which would be great
to have in the next release, but these changes are so wide
ranging that I would prefer we focus primarily on Python 3
for the next release.)

Regards,

Peter