Is Django really that big a deal in the python world? I know it is a big deal in the python web world, but the web seems a pretty small part of the python world as a whole. If I where to ask all the python developers I knew to prioritize the projects they want ported to py3, I'd imagine the results being numpy/scipy/matplotlib first followed wxpython or pyqt second followed by PIL and a whole bunch a smaller libraries, with Django getting a "sure I guess" down at the bottom of the list.

There is a poll about p3k compatibility on python.org: http://python.org/3kpoll

Django on top, followed by wxpython, scipy and mathplotlib.

If this is true, then there's a bit of a circular dependency Django is a pretty high-level project, though, with a lot of other dependencies of its own. I believe that the stated position of the Django core team is that there's no point in porting Django until some (all?) of the core dependencies are functional on Py3k. This, at least means wsgi and the database connectors, and possibly more.

So I hope that the rest of the Python community isn't sitting around waiting for Django to take the lead here.

I would say, practical implementation of PEP-3333 is more important than Django.

Most Python frameworks are stuck because of WSGI vs Python 3 issue.