How I moved a library from Python 2 to 3

Python 2 is dead — let’s move on!

Martin Thoma
Towards Data Science
7 min readAug 19, 2020

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Last year I’ve given a workshop about packaging Python projects. One of the participants was a bioinformatics researcher. She needed advice because she wanted to switch from Python 2 to Python 3, but a library she needed was only available for Python 2. Moving the library to Python 3 was pretty interesting and I’ll share here how I did it…

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