[AVRO-1382] Support for python3

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.6
• Component/s: python
• Assignee: Christophe Taton
• Reporter: Christophe Taton
• Created: 04/Oct/13 06:02
• Updated: 23/Jan/14 21:58
• Resolved: 10/Jan/14 19:17

Description

Hi,
I'd need to use Avro from Python3, which would require essentially the following changes, which I am happy to contribute:

• rewrite except statements according to new syntax
• rewrite print statements according to new syntax
• basestring becomes str
• update some imports (StringIO becomes io.StringIO, httplib becomes http.client)

This would apparently require branching the python code to maintain a version for python2 and a separate version for python3.

Any thoughts on how to approach this?
Thanks!