Py3kConversionTools

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Converting Python 2.x code to Python 3.x code


Since Python 2.6, Python has include a standard tool 2to3 to assist in the conversion. http://docs.python.org/library/2to3.html

Program features that need to be changed

  • has_key changed to x in dict

  • apply() removed

  • reduce() changed to functools.reduce()

Infrastructure for automatic refactoring

  • tokenize module

  • Python 2.5 compile() return ast objects