Re: [Sqlalchemy-tickets] [sqlalchemy] #2161: Py3k support for the C extension

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#2161: Py3k support for the C extension
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      Reporter:  ged           |      Owner:  pjenvey
          Type:  enhancement   |     Status:  new
      Priority:  medium        |  Milestone:  0.9.xx
     Component:  cextensions   |   Severity:  major - 1-3 hours
    Resolution:                |   Keywords:
Progress State:  needs review  |
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Comment (by claudiofreire):

 The biggest API difference is that everything is unicode now.

 So, while in py2 parsing a datetime is easily done with sscanf, in py3 you
 must first convert to ASCII, and catch errors in the process. There's a
 LOT of boilerplate to do that, and Cython has it all pretty well cooked,
 hiding all that boilerplate that is indeed quite different between py2 and
 py3.

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