Hi Nigel, On 3 September 2012 14:57, Nigel Sedgwick <n...@camalg.co.uk> wrote: > The application makes heavy use of numpy and wx and will soon make heavy > use of scipy, matplotlib and various other python libraries that are > widely used.
Python 3 versions of numpy and scipy are already in wheezy. wx and matplotlib haven't yet released Python 3 compatible versions, and Wheezy is frozen now, so they've missed that boat. If you need to use those packages for a substantial application in the near future, sticking with Python 2 for now is your safest bet. If you use Python 2.6 or 2.7 with modern idioms, it should be relatively easy to port code later when all the libraries are ready. As far as I understand Debian, none of those python3- packages will be added to Squeeze. The idea of a stable release is that the only updates it gets are bugfixes and security. Looking further ahead: matplotlib is aiming to release a Python 3 version in October. wxPython has a development version working on Python 3, but I don't see any indication of how soon a release is planned. Other GUI toolkits (Qt, GTK) already support Python 3, if they are an option for you. Best wishes, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caovn4qipxjjqxswn1dwc3rcnzhc15icn8e5dyxwa18yurzo...@mail.gmail.com