Andy Hayden

@ndmgrphc which fork (I can't see one on the github network)? Have you been using dino successfully?

:+1: on a single codebase. I think the first stage is to [add travis](https://travis-ci.org/hayd/pattern/builds/23087482) for testing (I looks like you're missing a `requirements.txt` file, so I'm unsure what deps it's...

My 2cents: - `from __future__` and `from future` are perfectly fine. - there may be a reason for the byte hack (is it faster than std library?) - mysql tests...

Happy to help with this, however when I tried (and trying again just now) running the tests I get a load of exceptions (python 2.7). I suspect this is just...

@tom-de-smedt Lots of stuff to migrated to python 3 but this can really only done with confidence once tests pass (and at the moment I can't get them passing either...

This was partially my misunderstanding (!), just running `nosetests` ran the abstract test methods, which fail (at least that's part of it). cleaning these classes is probably a good thing...

To answer @pemistahl I don't think going fully py3 (and dropping support for py27 is (Edit: NOT) a good option for a library... for the next decade!). I would like...

I've submitted a couple of PRs to the pattern3 branch, I think it makes sense to fix that up then merge back here (it's going to be easier to keep...

Just to update those following at home, last night I got python 3 running all tests without syntax or import errors (of course, half those tests are failing), python 2...

@kotrfa pattern3/pattern isn't on pip yet (so not installable), the tests aren't passing for python 3 either so it's not ready for release yet - though quite a bit of...