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2to3 needs manual assistance. Most projects couldn't drop Python 2 right away.


Yeah, it was definitely not just as easy as a machine translation, especially when dealing with which library functions took one vs the other.

And this attitude and lack of empathy ("just use the automated tool, lol") is a big part of why the blasted thing took so long.


I was refering specifically to the complaint about print vs print(). 2to3 will take care of that.




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