OPW: First goal achieved

Some time ago I achieved the first and most important goal of my internship: all tests are now passing for Python 3 and the py33-gate is now voting. Since then, there were no problems with Python 3 for Marconi and hopefully it will remain so. The only missing dependency is python-memcached, that is used for caching and thus not totally blocking usage.

There were 7 commits merged in total:

• Add separate requirements file for Python 3
• Fix sqlalchemy storage driver for Python 3
• Fix handling of request/response body for Python 3
• Small fixes in storage drivers for Python 3
• Fix tests to be Python 3 compatible
• Make storage.utils.keyify py3k compatible
• Fix Python 3 leftovers

with the last commit to make gate voting.

The overall impression from the work done: Python 3 is even more explicit, then Python 2.

The remaining time till August 18, I plan to spend doing several different activities:

• propose changes to other OpenStack projects to help them with Python 3 support (mostly I plan to target Oslo and Keystone).
• do something unrelated to Python 3 for OpenStack/Marconi.
• help other interns that are working on new storage and transport drivers for Marconi to make their changes Python 3 compatible.