Github user eevee commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/213#issuecomment-146636829
Yeah, like I said in the OP, `fastbinary.c` uses a private C interface to
cStringIO that was removed in Python 3, and I'm not familiar enough with it to
fix it.
FYI: I left the company I worked for and no longer have any need for
Thrift, so I won't be working on this further. Anyone else, feel free to pick
it up. Anyone who desperately needs Thrift on Python 3 may want to try
[thriftpy](https://github.com/eleme/thriftpy), which is pure-Python, works
everywhere, has a similar API, and doesn't require a manual code generation
step.
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