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How I Automated the Web3.py v6 to v7 Migration with AST + AI

DEV Community·ROHAN SANTHOSH·about 1 month ago
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Web3.py v7 introduced a migration problem that was much more painful than a normal dependency upgrade. It changed middleware architecture, provider names, exception imports, and namespace usage in ways that can easily break production code if migrated mechanically. I built Web3.py v7 Zero-BS Migrator to automate that upgrade with a hybrid approach: deterministic AST transforms for statically provable changes, and a tightly scoped AI rewrite layer only for middleware patterns that cannot be translated safely with pure syntax rules. Project links: DoraHacks submission: https://dorahacks.io/buidl/43676 Demo video: https://youtu.be/f2sC1IJPfpc GitHub PR: https://github.com/codemod/useful-codemods/pull/29 Live app: https://web3py-migrator-web.vercel.app/ The problem The biggest breaking change in Web3.py v7 was the move from functional middleware to class-based middleware.…

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