Django and Python 3 (opens in new tab)

Here would be my plan (though I'm not good enough to carry it out):

1. Port the dispatcher to P3.

2. Do something magic with urls.py, so you choose which version (2.X or 3.X) you want doing the query.

At this point, people can use URL plumbing to gradually port their Django projects.

3. Port the parts where Python 3 is a killer feature. String formatting, Unicode handling (maybe), function decorators, and metaclasses. This is the hard part - where would python 3 add some killer features to django?

You also need to do the db layer, the templating, and all that jazz, but that should follow once you have the incentive of actually seeing it work in your browser.

I started working on an app using Python 2.7. The only reason I chose 2.7 over 3.x was the lack of 3.x support in Django. I would be great to have Django support Python 3.x.

So this is an appeal to get taken up for google summer of code? Doesn't google have pages for these kind of requests?

Its nice to see posts about python and django. Ive only played around with them a little bit but having options is always a good thing and right now it seems the frameworks discussion is really dominated by Rails.

Kudos python 3.x