On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 at 13:45, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm attempting to convert a small Python-2 script to Python-3. Google
> appears to think that the best approach is something called 2to3, but I
> can't get it to work. I'm far from being a Python expert, but am at
> least using a virtual environment:
>
> poc@Bree:~$ cd venv
> poc@Bree:~/venv$ source bin/activate
> (venv) poc@Bree:~/venv$ type 2to3
> 2to3 is /home/poc/venv/bin/2to3
> (venv) poc@Bree:~/venv$ 2to3
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/home/poc/venv/bin/2to3", line 5, in <module>
> from cmd_2to3.__main__ import main
> File
> "/home/poc/venv/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/cmd_2to3/__main__.py", line
> 2, in <module>
> from lib2to3.main import main as l2to3_main
> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'lib2to3'
> (venv) poc@Bree:~/venv$ pip install lib2to3
> ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement lib2to3
> (from versions: none)
> ERROR: No matching distribution found for lib2to3
>
I've never used 2to3 but the pip library is called '2to3' not lib2to3,
although some Stack Overflow posts[1] do suggest that the packaged version
is sometimes called python3-lib2to3?
wmcdonald@fedora ~ → poetry search 2to3 | head
2to3 (1.0)
Adds the 2to3 command directly to entry_points.
wmcdonald@fedora ~ → mkdir -p ~/scratch/python/migrate
wmcdonald@fedora ~ → cd $_
13:54:42 wmcdonald@fedora migrate → python -m venv .migrate
wmcdonald@fedora migrate → . .migrate/bin/activate
(.migrate) wmcdonald@fedora migrate → pip list
Package Version
------- -------
pip 23.3.2
(.migrate) wmcdonald@fedora migrate → pip install 2to3
Collecting 2to3
Downloading 2to3-1.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (225 bytes)
Downloading 2to3-1.0-py3-none-any.whl (1.7 kB)
Installing collected packages: 2to3
Successfully installed 2to3-1.0
13:56:08 (.migrate) wmcdonald@fedora migrate → python
Python 3.12.7 (main, Oct 1 2024, 00:00:00) [GCC 14.2.1 20240912 (Red Hat
14.2.1-3)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import 2to3
File "<stdin>", line 1
import 2to3
^
SyntaxError: invalid decimal literal
>>> import lib2to3
<stdin>:1: DeprecationWarning: lib2to3 package is deprecated and may not be
able to parse Python 3.10+
>>> dir(lib2to3)
['__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__',
'__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__', 'warnings']
[1]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20458011/how-to-use-2to3-properly-for-python
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