Chris Angelico wrote: ... > What if neither works, because there are assumptions that don't work?
then you get stuck doing it by hand, but you would have been stuck doing it before for sure by hand so if you can write something which might get some of the easy cases done then at least you're saving your efforts for the harder stuff. > I get the very strong impression that you've never tried this. of course not! i don't have that kind of pipeline or machine power and i'm several years away from being where i'd like to be in terms of understanding the language itself. i hope to have the time over the next few years to learn enough but i don't know how that will go. i'm glad in looking around more the past few evenings that the conversion effort is making progress and things are not as dire as some have made it out to be. i just hope the lessons have been learned going forwards. songbird -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list