I figured it might be interesting to submit this again given recent discussions about Mercurial's Python 3 port. This blog post of mine is very old (from 2011)

I figured it might be interesting to submit this again given recent discussions about Mercurial's Python 3 port. This blog post of mine is very old (from 2011) and a lot of what's in that blog post is no longer at all relevant. However I think it's quite interesting to remember what we started out with.