Python 3.x Support about requests

[merwok]

Are you going to use 2to3 at build-time, or manually maintain two branches, or support both lines from a single codebase?

[kennethreitz]

@merwok: support both from the same codebase, ideally (this is what I do for tablib).

[merwok]

Okay. I guess you’ll have a small compat module, like six (look for it on PyPI if you don’t know what it is), and sprinkle the ugly b function everywhere to have sane bytes/string separation.

[kennethreitz]

https://github.com/kennethreitz/tablib/blob/develop/tablib/compat.py :D

[mlen108]

Hey, if you don't mind my asking - is there any progress on it?

[kennethreitz]

Yes, great progress! The feature/rewrite branch has urllib2 and poster removed, and has a nice new codebasethat will be wonderfully simple to port to 3.x :)

[kennethreitz]

Requests v0.8.x has been released for several weeks now, which uses urllib3. Getting closer!

[fafhrd91]

Hey, is there any progress on py3 compatibility?

[piotr-dobrogost]

Well, kind of... Team behind pip installer may pretty soon decide to use requests instead of what they currently have and when this happens the pressure for porting will be enormous :)

[jezdez]

Actually, no pressure from us, really, take your time, get this right the first time.

[kennethreitz]

@jezdez nothing wrong with some motivation :)

[kennethreitz]

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[kennethreitz]

IT IS FINISHED

[oemmerson]

Awesome, thank you!