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- Most of it can be automated with 2to3.

- We already have linting in place that encourages Python 3 compatibility (and have no linter warnings on master).

- We already use six for moved modules.

- And we have a test suite that is not exhaustive, but 'good enough' to find the common patterns of bug for this kind of thing.

- We also have a style-guide that favours the ability to find-replace project wide with relative safety.

- We don't have much 'math heavy' code that will fail with the changes in operations in Python 3.

- We already use unicode for the majority of strings.

- We don't use my Python networking code directly, it's mostly just Requests (so a lot of the moved modules don't apply).

This excludes the upgrading of dependencies, I think that's where we will spend more time, but the actual Python 3 transition for the main codebase should be ok, mostly because of the effort we've put into style and review since it started ~5 years ago.



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