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3rd September 2007 - Link Blog

Sam Ruby: 2to3. Sam’s report on an attempt to port the Universal Feed Parser to Python 3.0. The 2to3 tool does most of the work, but it seems the unicode changes can be pretty tricky.

Posted 3rd September 2007 at 1:38 am

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