I'm porting an old project to Python 3, with the intention of making one codebase that will still run on 2.6/2.7 as well as 3.2+ (or 3.3+, if 3.2 is in any way annoying). My first step was to run the code through 2to3, and the basics are already sorted out by that. Got one question though, and it's more of an advice one.
In the current version of the code, I use BaseHTTPServer as the main structure of the request handler. 2to3 translated this into http.server, which seems to be the nearest direct translation. But is that the best way to go about making a simple HTTP server? Also, it's expecting bytes everywhere, and I can't find a simple way to declare an encoding and let self.wfile.write() accept str. Do I have to explicitly encode everything that I write, or is there a cleaner way? (I could always make my own helper function, but would prefer something standard if there's a way.) The current version of the code is at: https://github.com/Rosuav/Yosemite It's ugly in quite a few places; when I wrote most of that, I was fairly new to Python, so I made a lot of naughty mistakes (bare except clauses all over the place, ugh!). Adding support for Python 3 seems like a good excuse to clean all that up, too :) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
