I don't know what you see under a smooth transition, but I've had to edit the first line of a lot of apps.. (#!/usr/bin/python to #!/usr/bin/python2). No big trouble, but trouble nonetheless. Adrian 2010/11/12 Brendan Long <korin43@xxxxxxxxx> > On 11/12/2010 11:46 AM, Auguste Pop wrote: > > Considering the incompatibility in the fundamental print > > function/statement, I seriously doubt the number of python2 packages > > that can run under python3 without any modification. > > But that's the easy part. 2to3 can automatically convert a lot of > things, like print x to print(x), xrange(y) to range(y) and range(z) to > list(range(z)): > > 2to3 -w somefile.py # converts the file to python 3 and also backs up > the original > > References: > http://docs.python.org/library/2to3.html > http://diveintopython3.org/porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html >
