[Tutor] could please convert this code to 3.X by using 2to3

[Danny Yoo]

>
> - Don't spam the same question in several different threads, and
> especially don't privately email list participants with the same
> question.  Doing so is likely to get you ignored by people who would
> otherwise be quite happy to help you.


I'd like to make that comment stronger: by repeating the same question
over and over, the questioner is giving the impression of a petulant
child.

I _know_ that's not the intent of the original questioner.  But I have
to say exactly what kind of impression I'm getting from this.
Sometimes the person making the mistake doesn't realize how bad of a
mistake they're making.

The guidelines in:

    http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

are that: just guidelines.  But there's a good reason they're there,
because violating them makes it much more difficult to get good
answers from a group of enthusiast volunteers.  It makes them less
enthusiastic.


I don't think there's been any other changes to the question as
originally asked since back in January, right?

    https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2014-January/099466.html


In fact, when the question was asked again a few days later, I tried
the automatic 2to3 translator on the program.  I had no problem with
it: it translated directly.

    https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2014-January/099591.html



So it begs the question: doesn't that kill the problem?  The natural
followup would be: why isn't the original questioner using 2to3?  Are
they having a problem with the tool?  So we asked, but we never got a
satisfactory answer to that question: the original questioner ignored
us.



And again, the original questioner asked the same exact question a few
days later:

    https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2014-January/099708.html

with a similar response.


So I'm inclined to give it one more shot.  S Tareq, why not use "2to3"?