(When) Will m2crypto be ported to Python3?

Is there a port underway of m2crypto to Python3? I'm going to be starting a new toy project that needs cross-platform/cross-lan开发者_运维技巧guage crypto, and m2crypto looks like the way to go, but I'd rather work with Py3, to avoid having to explicitly convert to UTF8 everywhere.

Is there any chance that a port of this library is underway?

Code is at https://gitorious.org/chandler/m2crypto (branch python3), but it has not been finished yet (tests still fail). If somebody is willing to help with the finishing it, it would be awesome and the endless amount of positive karma waits for you from $DEITY.

A person started working on this and produced a partial patch which is available in https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12853. It would need someone who has need for Python 3.0 to finish it up.