[Image-SIG] Adding Python 3 support

[Alex Clark]

On 2012-10-11 02:57:07 +0000, Brian Crowell said:

> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Alex Clark <aclark at aclark.net> wrote:
>> No. But maybe a single "Python 3 support" ticket in the relevant branch
>> (https://bitbucket.org/effbot/pil-2009-raclette). IIUC, PIL has some Python
>> support added. One possible scenario is that we take that code and release
>> it.
> 
> Do you consider Raclette your upstream? Also, I'm reading through the
> Python 3 patches on there.

Yes. IIUC that's where there the latest PIL work is/was taking place.

> Lundh seemed to expect to be able to
> support much older versions of Python, which really wouldn't have
> worked when he hit the Python source. I'm going to go with a cleaner
> approach.
> 
> Essentially all I'm going to do is update the Python source to where
> it meets Py3 syntax and library requirements, get the extension
> modules to build under both Py2 and Py3, then futz with the bytes/str
> division using the three existing ports as a guide. After that, all we
> should need is solid testing.


+1. This would be the time for others to weigh in I guess. Is this what 
folks generally want to see from PIL/Pillow wrt to Python 3 support?


> 
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