This is great news. Last I heard, the author of Calibre's said: > I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself. Far less work than migrating the entir

This is great news. Last I heard, the author of Calibre's said: > I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself. Far less work than migrating the entire calibre codebase. [1] > calibre has half a MILLION lines of python and python extension code...calibre has lots and lots of code that deals with bytes -- network protocols, binary file formats, etc. Python 3 is simply worse than python 2 for this use case. It has a crippled bytes type among other unfelicities. [2] > There is just no way that calibre is ever going to be ported to python 3. [3] Glad to see some outsider, flaviut, stepped to to the challenge and kovidgoyal accepted his pull request. Looking at the pull request it seems that kovidgoyal's fear about external native functions, network protocols, binary file formats, and python3's byte type was not so insurmountable. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1714107 https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1714107 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1456642 https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1456642 [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1756458 https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1756458