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I’ve been pulled away from GSoC so much over the past few weeks that I have actually fallen a little behind.  So, over the next few days, I plan to finish everything that is left.  Starting when I finish one last physics problem (which is, at the latest, midnight Friday) (approximately 24 hours from this post), I plan to dedicate the week-end to nothing but coding and the personal necessities.  My goal is to have the following completed by the end of the week-end:

• done.. fix_imports also fixes the usage of the names imported (at time of writing, it only fixed the import)
• done.. most of fix_imports2, a fixer that deals with multiple modules that were merged into a single module (at the minimum, the “from x import y” component)
• done.. fix_features, a fixer that will warn the user which code cannot be converted syntactically because of new py3k features
• not done.. (time-permitting) fix_print works for real (currently only adds “from __future__ import print_function”, which caps the python2.x version at 2.6 if there is a print)

I really think I can pull this off this week-end.  It will take just the right combination of Mountain Dew and my ADD meds.  And a DND message.

Also, barring catastrophic failure of reaching those goals, that will bring me very close to the end of the project.  The ample amounts of ahead-of-schedule time I had at the beginning have been brought in check by ever-increasingly difficult physics homework and the more-than-occasional free time to spend with Kristina.  By August 10 (suggested pencils-down date), barring acts of $DEITY, I should be prepared to do some more documentation, clean up the code, make sure my test suite is thorough, etc. to be prepared for the August 17 deadline.

Edit:

fix_imports2 should now be done, as far as (from x import y) is concerned.  It requires a heck of a lot more testing than my few test cases, though.  In any case, my weekend goal is now complete! (with the exception of fix_print refactoring, as I did not end up having the extra time to do it)  Final challenges are:

• fix_imports2 needs to work for (import x) and (from x import *) imports.
• The code needs to be more readable (ongoing process).
• Need to remind myself what I needed to do with itertools. Fixed in changeset e343ee635f0b
• Add in 3.1 features to fix_features.
• Test cases, test cases, test cases!!!  If anyone can help with this, I would really appreciate it!  Even just a link to a really comprehensive piece of py3k software to look at would help out tremendously.