First attempts at py3k

[metakermit]

Related to #36. This shouldn't be merged yet (incomplete). I want to start the conversation around the porting effort, though.

[metakermit]

2to3 fixed what it could. I replaced some modules with their py3-compatible equivalents (mostly development branches). I had to get rid of the vendored code, as a lot of it was py3-incompatible and there do exist compatible upstream versions, so using them as packages was more elegant. I got to the point where I can import the newspaper module and most of the tasks I can reach with nose pass. I currently hit a wall due to the @print_test decorator, which doesn't work with nose (which I use for testing and debugging). I placed some decode calls clumsily, I'd say. It would be good if a central strategy for turning bytes to str (unicode) was thought out, so that it happens as early as possible.

There is still plenty of work, I'd say, but it's a start. For now, a goal could be to be able to publish this as another package on PyPI (newspaper3) and then maybe slowly merge the two code-bases by adding from future import ... and six stuff.

[codelucas]

Excellent job so far! I'm glad you are doing this.

[codelucas]

Closing this due to #86