Yes the translation tools existed, but they were not quite enough. Besides real world doesn't move in one swoop. You need co-existence. I very much wanted to m

Yes the translation tools existed, but they were not quite enough. Besides real world doesn't move in one swoop. You need co-existence. I very much wanted to move to Python 3, but critical libraries I was using were not there. And running both 2 and 3 at the same time was very unergonomic until python-future [1] became stable and widely-used. [1] http://python-future.org/ http://python-future.org/