@roland @djsumdog @mk @RedTechEngineer Unlikely; if it was 1:1 then it wouldn't require porting to begin with. You could maybe have a bot attempt it, but the bot would have to decipher what the original author *meant* to do rather than what they actually did.

For example, Python 3 changed how strings were handled. Probably in most cases this is trivial, but sometimes when reading the code, a machine wouldn't be able to tell if it was intended to handle ASCII or UTF-8 or binary data. And that's one semantic change: a lot of libraries went away, so how do you automate that? Just dump the library code into the middle of the file, or select a new API? Can you automate the process of translating a web2py application into a Django one? A lot of these things you can't really automate: you need to make decisions about what to do, which requires you to understand why the code exists.