Neat way to port nonpolyglot code from Py2 to Py3

Question

In many of my python modules, I am using

from itertools import izip_longest

But now I am moving my codebase to Py3 (compatible with Py2 at the sa

Answer 1

You can wrap that exact code inside a module of your own, say itertools_compat.py, and just write

from itertools_compat import izip_longest

wherever you need this function.