The holdup here is not technical. It's great that we've got people like Alex willing to port code, but that's not the hard part. The hard part is people who are using and want to continue using Django on platforms where Python 2.5 or even 2.4 is still the standard.
More on this forthcoming, once I've had a proper weekend off.
EDIT: I'd have thought upgrading the codebase to 3.x and making sure that 3to2 produces a working 2.4 version would be better than using 2to3. Thoughts?
2.4 only supports this:
try:
do stuff
except FooError, e:
do stuff with e
2.5 through 2.7 interpret like 2.4 but also support explicit parentheses to do what Python 3 does:
try:
do stuff
except (FooError, BarError) as e:
do stuff
except (BazError, QuxError):
do other stuff
import sys
try:
fn()
except (IOError, TypeError):
err = sys.exc_info()[1]
print(err)