[reportlab-users] ReportLab / Python 3000

[Robin Becker]

Tim Roberts wrote:

> Andy Robinson wrote:

>> Prompted by Dinu's reminder on releases, I would like to get some

>> opinions on Python 3.0.

>>

>> I'm curious to know if anyone here has plans to move rapidly onto

>> Python 3.0? It's now in alpha 2 and slated for release this summer,

>> although not many other libraries are following suit.

.......

I have started with a branch of the reportlab trunk code for python 3. I used 
the 2to3 tool and then started with the tests. All failures. After two days of 
effort I can just about import canvas, but still nothing works.

There is a real problem here related to the way we do things. In 3 all strings 
are unicode so that eases one whole class of problems ie we get rid of all the 
conversions involving utf8 in the various front end bits. On the other hand all 
output has to be in bytes so literally every piece of output needs to be 
converted. The question is where? Should the conversions be done close to the 
creation or only on output?
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Robin Becker