[Biopython-dev] Python 2 and 3 migration thoughts

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Tue Nov 5 20:58:12 UTC 2013


On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Peter Cock wrote:
>
> At this point we're not using any 2to3 fixers, so we could
> remove the do2to3.py script etc - which is what the remaining
> fixes on this branch do:
>
> https://github.com/peterjc/biopython/tree/py3more
>
> However, before I do that, are there any pending commits
> which would still need 2to3 in the short term?

Pushed to master, Biopython now runs on Python 2 and
Python 3 natively without using the 2to3 converter :)

https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/6b24a509b13e9df3c41fc211646d24382685e050
https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/a9cb8c10f68fe6d8bdccf34d8217838cc9d4db7f

Now let's focus on Biopython 1.63 (beta), which Tiago has
kindly offered to managed :)

http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2013-November/010955.html

Peter



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