On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 10:16 AM Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Go Canes wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 8:45 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
> > <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm attempting to convert a small Python-2 script to Python-3.
> >
> > How small? It might be easy to do by-hand. I.e., if it is aborting
> > on things like "print 'something'", that just needs to be changed to
> > "print('something')"
>
> Indeed, manual conversion may be trivial.
>
> Additionally, you can install python3.12-devel to get
> 2to3-3.12 rather than risk fouling up your system with pip
> install¹.
++
> Then you can run it as `2to3-3.12 -w /path/to//script.py`
> and it should fix many of the issues -- but not necessarily
> all of them. It makes a backup of the files it modifies, by
> default. For basic usage, `2to3-3.12 --help` is useful.
Also see <https://docs.python.org/3.12/library/2to3.html>.
> The 2to3 tool and library were removed in python 3.13, after
> being deprecated since python 3.11.
I thought all those 2to3 conversions happened like 10 or 15 years ago :)
> ¹ I'm sure many people swear by pip, but I think it's barely
> better than running `curl ... | bash` to install things,
> which I consider to be a bad practice.
cURL never broke a system of mine, unlike pip... pip is banned from my
networks. It stands proudly in distinction, like the junk software
from Adobe.
Jeff
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