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Fri Mar 19 15:23:33 CET 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-March/098546.html

On 3/19/10 12:57 PM, Arc Riley wrote:
> Hi Laurent
>
> If your community project would like help porting to Python 3, and you
> feel this work is enough for a student to work full time for several
> weeks on, then please do add it to the GSoC ideas page on the wiki.

Whether this is worth weeks of work or not will depend on a given 
student's knowledge about Python 3, and I'd suspect that the GSoC would 
be an opportunity for a number of applicant to actually learn the 
intricacies of Python 3.
Developing Python 3-specific features could be used to increase the 
amount of work on the project, but I am uncertain of whether this is 
worth a full GSoC.

> There will be another program running for high school students which is
> more suitable for smaller tasks (2-3 days each), more on-par with the
> actual time it takes to port most Python packages.
>

My project is roughly 6000 lines of Python and 6000 lines of C (Mostly 
C-level Python API bindings). I tried porting to Python 3 in the past, 
and it went fast (less than a day). The hurdle is that this resulted in 
segfaults for a lot of string-related features (You know, the 
byte/string thing). Tracing issues at the C level can be time-consuming, 
so I am hesitating to claim that 2-3 days of an high-school student 
would be enough.

Could several ports be bundled in a GSoC (the target projects would be 
grouped by theme, somehow).

L.

> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Laurent Gautier <lgautier at gmail.com
> <mailto:lgautier at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hi,
>
>
>     Does this mean that any other python project could potentially see
>     itself ported to Python 3 in the course of this SoC ? If so, can any
>     project owner submit a request for help, or is there going to be a
>     list of projects that would nice to port, or will a voting system of
>     some sort be put in place ?
>
>
>     Best,
>
>
>     Laurent
>
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