[Duplicity-talk] Help adorning strings for Python 3

[Aaron]

Hello all,

I would really appreciate help with adorning strings (with u/b):
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/duplicity/+spec/adorn-string-literals
in support of our high-priority effort to make the code base python 2/3 
compatible:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/duplicity/+spec/python3

I have described the process in quite some detail in the blueprint 
above, have created a script to help locate what needs to change and 
have created code tests to ensure any files that are fixed do not slip 
backwards. Following the suggested process means that each file can be 
merged back into trunk as soon as the strings in it are adorned and we 
can break a big job into many tiny chunks.

I have also started converting the strings in files one by one. It is 
mostly very straightforward, but it is the big blocker to using largely 
automated tools to help futurize our code and gain Python 3 support.

Wherever possible, we want to end up with Unicode strings instead of 
bytes, which may need a few slightly more substantive changes along the 
way. Helper variables/functions have already been created in duplicity 
to assist with this (see blueprints).

(Yes, I know that adorned strings look ugly. We only plan to support 
Python 2 and 3 in parallel for a single series, then switch to Python 
3-only, when we can automatically remove all the ' u" 's.)

I am hoping that many hands will make light work.

Many thanks,

Aaron