Try to fix: DeprecationWarning: invalid escape sequence \d DeprecationWarning: invalid escape sequence \s DeprecationWarning: invalid escape sequence \) Strings under python 3 are unicode strings rather then "regular" strings as under python 2. So all regexps need to be raw strings. We will see how many I fixed and if I broke any.

def preset_new(db, cl, nodeid, newvalues):
    """ Make sure the status is set on new issues"""

    if 'status' in newvalues and newvalues['status']:
        return

    new = db.status.lookup('new')
    newvalues['status'] = new


def init(db):
    # fire before changes are made
    db.issue.audit('create', preset_new)