Native code Python modules, I mean typically C written libs or APIs like Blender's, used to not be compatible between Python releases.
However, there seems to be a part of the ABI that remains compatible between releases, since 3.2: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/stable.html I don't know whether and how exactly people may mix native modules in and out of Blender in Python VFX pipelines. But just a note that it may be less a problem now than earlier. Or not, I didn't check how useful the compatible part of the binary interface is. 2 cently, Toni On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, 12:31 Bastien Montagne, <montagn...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > TL;DR Am all for switching to python 3.8 in Blender 2.82. > > TBH I would not be too much concerned about that VFX reference thing, > waiting over ten years until a deprecated technology is finally > officially not supported anymore to switch to a new, modern one sounds > like a joke to me, especially in an industry that is always supposed to > be at the tip of progress in techs! > > And as Sybren said, py3.8 will support all of py3.7 features, so just > write your code for 3.7 if you really want to stick to that 'industry > standard' thing. > > Bastien > > On 05/11/2019 22:33, dr. Sybren A. Stüvel wrote: > > On 05/11/2019 21:31, Luciano A. Muñoz Sessarego wrote: > >> I honestly would stick to the VFX reference one, yesterday daniel bysted > >> made a point about it on twitter: > >> https://twitter.com/3DBystedt/status/1191527352012070912 > > It looks like his point was that things are easier now that the VFX > > Reference Platform is no longer on an ancient version of Python. > > > > Compared to supporting Python 2 and 3 in one script (which is also > > doable, but not fun), it'll be peanuts to just write pipeline tools for > > Python 3.7 and have them run on 3.8 as well. > > > > Sybren > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers