Python 3 and 1.0

[Eric S. Raymond]

Fred Wright via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> BTW, all the tests fail on FreeBSD, due to an undefined reference in
> jigs.py.

Huh? If so, why has this not shown up in the results from the FreeBSD buildbot.

> Indeed.  When I started looking at the ntpq bug, I noticed that there
> seemed to be some inconsistencies in whether 'response' was expected to be
> str or bytes.  It doesn't matter in Python 2, of course.  But tossing in
> enough polystr() and polybytes() calls to make the exceptions go away
> isn't necessarily the best approach to making reliable code. :-)

Unfortunately it's about the only recourse we have.  See

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/practical-python-porting/

for detailed discussion.
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