[Python-3000] Python 3.0 Porting Strategies

[Charles Merriam]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote:
...
>  For new code, however, there is an alternative strategy that doesn't
>  involve 2to3 at all, which is to write code in the "greatest common
>  subset" of 2.6 and 3.0.
>
>  As Lennart Regbro pointed out earlier, this common subset is actually
>  quite large (larger than Guido originally intended, I think), and you
>  can write some fairly substantial applications in it.

Ok, I'll bite.  How can I write the greatest common denominator of this code:

print "Hello World!"  # yes, that needs to be Unicode.

I thought the greatest common denominator method was killed by Guido
to prevent slippery slopes.