Is python finally getting past the 2/3 jump?
See
https://www.jetbrains.com/research/devecosystem-2018/python/
For 2018 stats
If you have a good test suite it's pretty easy to migrate, you can easily do a couple thousand lines per day. There were a few third-party testing tools that used to be fairly popular that are no longer well maintained, so if your tests are written in those then you might be looking at re-writing the app from scratch. But otherwise it's fairly straightforward to port.
Even if you did your string encoding just using guess-and-check, which most people did, it still doesn't take all that long to upgrade as long as there are tests.