I now have a local git branch with about 70 commits, always rebased onto current trunk. Those test suites pass with Python2 and Python3: test_banana, test_jelly, test_pb, test_pbfailure, test_persisted I also have a real app using PB (kajongg, a KDE game). Running the server and the client with any combination of Python 2 and Python 3 works but more testing is needed there. Especially transferring failures with non-ascii test, so I need to inject random errors. spread.banana is now fully covered by tests (was at 85% before). There is still a lot of code in twisted.spread which has no tests yet. I do not think I want to add missing tests for everything, only for those regions where I do changes or where it is not too difficult. And of course if an application triggers a bug yet uncovered by tests. Can you point me to other PB applications I could use for testing? Preferrably ones that are already mostly compatible with PY3 themselves, but that is not a _must_, I would try porting them unless it turns out to be too much work. And preferrably ones developed by people with a non-ascii native language. I do not yet trust Failures and logging with non-ascii. Below is the current list of commits. Everything you see there is still much in flux. This includes shuffling code between commits, combining and splitting commits, changing order. I want to open one ticket per commit. Simple things hopefully not needing much discussion first. Estimating one week per review/commit to trunk, this process will take more than one year. Often I can only add a new ticket after the previous one has been integrated because they depend on each other. So if it really seems to take that long, at some point I might just decide to put what I have to github and not care anymore. Which of course means I might have to distribute a patched twisted version with my application. I really want to leave Python2 behind, and only twisted is in the way. Latest versions of KDE do not have Python2 bindings anymore (KDE Frameworks 5). This log of course includes things being in tickets up for review. git log --pretty='format:%s' --reverse trunk..pb3 spread.banana: selecting an unsupported dialect now raises an Exception spread.banana now raises BananaError when receiving pb messages without pb being the selected dialect spread.banana: specific error message about unicode objects spread.banana: test coverage goes up from 85% to 100% test.test_banana: eliminate duplicate code twisted.python.reflect.safe_str on Python 3 converts utf-8 encoded bytes to clean str instead of "b'a'" test.test_{failure,banana,persisted,reflect}: consistently name all test methods test_* test.test_jelly: add tests for yet untested code spread.jelly: support the sets module only for Python 2 twisted.spread: Assume that Python always has unicode support enabled Ticket 7653. spread.jelly: deprecate unjellying instances spread.jelly can now transfer objects with new style classes cred.credentials: implements->implementer cred.checkers: implements->implementer test.test_pb: implements->implementer persisted.styles: add new tests persisted.styles.unpickleMethod: remove dead code spread.flavors: fix import paths, making them work with Python 3 too spread: Python 3: add from __future__ do not use argument tuple unpacking anymore, not available in Python 3 spread.publish and test.test_pb: replace file by open test.test_pb: use a constant for "BRAINS!" python.compat: get_im_func, get_im_self, get_im_class and use them in spread persisted.styles: simplify unpickleMethod persisted.styles: Port to Python 3 python.compat: for PY3, define long=int and xrange=range spread.banana: replace StringIO.StringIO by io.BytesIO python.compat.networkChar: New, and use it in spread.banana python.compat.networkString: improve Exception message spread.banana: change literals from "" to b"" where appropriate test.test_banana: fix a wrong assertion message test.test_banana: use itertools.chain test.test_banana: Python 3 does not know type long spread: Python 3 does not have sys.maxint spread.banana and test: Complete port to Python 3: handling of data spread.jelly: Unjellying instance is not supported with Python 3 spread.jelly: unify usage of the types module spread.jelly: consistently use _atom identifiers spread.jelly: complete port to Python 3 spread.pb, test.test_pbfailure: new syntax for except spread.pb: do not use argument tuple unpacking anymore, not available in Python 3 test.test_jelly now passes all tests with Python 3 cred.credentials.updateHash accepts unicode add ported modules to python/dist3.py spread.flavors: consistently use _atom identifiers spread.flavors: Python 3: eliminate __cmp__. Only support __eq__ and __ne__ spread: Use networkString/nativeString where appropriate spread.flavors: switch atoms from str to b"" test.test_pb: improve test_concurrentLogin: use a non-ascii password spread.pb: eliminate __cmp__, using FancyEqMixin test.test_pb: add comment to test_tooManyRefs: too slow spread.pb: introduce *_atom constants spread.pb: Python 3: use list() around some generators spread.pb.Broker: improve Exception message spread.pb and test: Python 3: xrange = range spread.pb and test: Python 3: use byte literals spread.pb: failure2Copyable: use _newInstance from jelly spread.pb: replace types.ListType with list spread.pb and test: use networkChar where appropriate test.test_pb: change from StringIO to io.BytesIO spread.pb: Python 3: make *_atom bytes python.logger.formatWithCall: support non-ascii strings. Why exactly does kajongg need this? python.compat: networkIdentifier, nativeIdentifier. Not yet used. SQUASH spread.pb: CopiedFailure now handles non-ascii strings. TEST MISSING spread.flavors: RemoteCopy supports non-ascii identifiers. TEST MISSING. Why does kajongg need this? python.reflect: _safeFormat must handle unicode python.util: new debug function stack(). REMOVE AGAIN python.compat: nativeIdentifier accepts non-unicode. NEEDED WHY? TEST CASE MISSING test.test_{banana,jelly,pb,pbfailure,persisted}: from __future__ test.test_pbfailure: make literal strings bytes test.test_pbfailure: replace StringIO with io.BytesIO spread.flavors: translate keys of received dict into nativeString. INCOMPLETE -- Wolfgang