Make balanced-python compatible with python 3

[foxwoods369]

Hi all,

I recently started looking into developing a django website using python 3.3, but when looking at django-balanced, I found it isn't compatible with python 3, in part because balanced-python isn't compatible. I'm opening this issue to help gauge interest in updating balanced-python to python 3.

[mjallday]

I think we're definitely open to doing this. I actually attempted this about a year ago but gave up because one of the underlying libraries didn't support it at that time.

Here's a list of the requirements for the 1.1 branch of balanced-python, the first step would be to make sure all the libraries are compatible with python3.

• certifi==0.0.8
• chardet==2.2.1
• iso8601==0.1.4
• mock==1.0.1
• nose==1.3.0
• requests==2.1.0
• simplejson==3.3.1
• unittest2==0.5.1
• uritemplate==0.6
• wac==0.22
• wsgiref==0.1.2

It appears they are all at least installable since running pip install -r requirements.txt worked as expected.

[mjallday]

It's failing installing unittest2. There is an alternative package called unittest2py3k.

After working around that, it appears that wac uses some libraries (httplib for a start) which do not exist in python3. We're currently using an outdated version of wac so I think we're going to block on #74 before this can continue.

[icook]

I'm interested in this as well. I've done the minor patching to wac and balanced python needed to get imports working, but unable to run the test suite because of a few other incompatibilities. Would you accept a pull request that adds a dependency of six?

[mahmoudimus]

@mjallday unittest2 is not required because it has been merged in python2.7 +

[mahmoudimus]

@icook have you looked at using http://python-future.org/index.html ?

[icook]

I've heard of it but hadn't looked into it much. I'll look into using it instead of six since it looks like the more modern replacement.

[mjallday]

There's a great attempt happening over in #106