The Conservative Python 3 Porting Guide

A guide for people for whom Python 3 is a necessary nuisance, written for large, conservative codebases that need to start supporting Python 3.

Building

To build the documentation locally, use a Python 3 virtualenv, install sphinx:

$ python -m pip install sphinx

... and run it:

$ make html

Testing

We have a few automatic tests. To run them, install dependencies:

$ python -m pip install -r test-requirements.txt

... and run:

$ python -m pytest -v