[Docutils-develop] Ported docutils to Python 3

[Georg B. <g.b...@gm...>]

Hey,

I've just committed a somewhat larger patch that ports docutils to Python 3.
If you want to use docutils under Python 3, here is how to do it:

* Get a build of the Python 3.1 branch (3.0 release won't work, but you don't
  want to use it anyway).

* Run python3 setup.py build -- this, in addition to copying the sources to
  build/lib, will also convert them using 2to3 to Python 3-compatible code.
  This takes quite some time the first time, but it works incrementally, so
  if you change one file it will only reconvert that file the next time you
  run setup.py build.

* Run python3 tests/alltests3.py -- this will copy and convert the test suite
  to build/lib/test and run it.  This is incremental like the setup.py build.

Note that you can still run the test suite with Python 2 with the normal
python tests/alltests.py.

So if you make a change, it would be nice if you, in addition to testing with
Python 2, also tested with Python 3.  If you run into problems with the test
suite under 3, feel free to mail me.

cheers,
Georg

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