[Twisted-Python] Twisted for Python 3

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:43:21 -0400
Itamar Turner-Trauring <itamar at itamarst.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 15:49 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
> > This is also the decision
> > taken in the standard pickle module: if you unpickle a 2.x pickle
> > containing str objects, you get 3.x str objects (not bytes).
> 
> That decision is wrong. It's corrupting users' data, though arguably
> it's your own fault if you actually rely on pickle.

No matter how you decide to handle the transition, there will be
incompatibilities when transitioning between different data models.
Relying on a pickle is no different than relying on a JSON tree, an AMP
box or anything else.

Mapping the natural 2.x string type to the natural 3.x string type was
a reasonable decision in that context.

Regards

Antoine.