(In reply to Jan Matejek from comment #4) > i'm partway through converting the code to Python 3. > most of the heavy lifting can be done with 2to3, the rest requires manual > intervention. > (it doesn't help that the code consistently uses "str" and "list" as > variable names.....) Are you in contact with upstream? Have you looked at current git master? Things may have partly been addressed meanwhile and would be worth backporting.