Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO projects and Python 3.x
On Jan 3, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Dave Sampson wrote: > Hey Folks, > > I am wondering what, if any, projects are preparing or planning for a > move to support python 3.x. > > Due to it being a major release I understand it does not come with > backwards compatibility, however there are some tools out there to help > with this. and of course there is surely to be lots of hands on > tweaking. > > This also raises questions about projects using jython as it just > released Jython 2.5.1 in september of 2009. > > If there are projects moving towards this assume there are libraries > that will also have to create bindings and such. > > with the Public Address Geocoder project (http://www.pagcgeo.org/) I > just created python bindings for the library. I am wondering if I should > go ahead with python 3.x bindings. Using SWIG this should not be a > challenge. > > so what are people doing with python 3? While the expectation is such that people aren't requiring the usage of Python 3 that widely, and most of the distributions haven't picked it up yet, there's some support in the Open Source GIS realm. Thanks to Even Rouault, GDAL 1.7 will have Python 3 support through SWIG, though it will be somewhat limited by numpy not being ported to Python 3.x. libLAS also provides support for Python 3.x via ctypes. I know that Shapely also has some Python 3 support. I am sure there are many others. I would say that Python 3.x is not widely enough used to require *only* Python 3. You must support both the 2.x and 3.x right now (my guess is that you'll probably want to support Python 2.x for at least the next five years as well), either within the same codebase or as two separate sub-libraries that are mostly the same code. Howard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO projects and Python 3.x
I don't think that we (OpenJUMP) will switch to Python 3.x using Jython soon - nor prepare anything. So we rely on the Jython team anyway. stefan Dave Sampson schrieb: Hey Folks, I am wondering what, if any, projects are preparing or planning for a move to support python 3.x. Due to it being a major release I understand it does not come with backwards compatibility, however there are some tools out there to help with this. and of course there is surely to be lots of hands on tweaking. This also raises questions about projects using jython as it just released Jython 2.5.1 in september of 2009. If there are projects moving towards this assume there are libraries that will also have to create bindings and such. with the Public Address Geocoder project (http://www.pagcgeo.org/) I just created python bindings for the library. I am wondering if I should go ahead with python 3.x bindings. Using SWIG this should not be a challenge. so what are people doing with python 3? Cheers ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO projects and Python 3.x
Dave, I know I had some problems getting Python 3.X to work on my Windows XP computer a couple of weeks ago. I had no problems with the previous release of Python. Landon Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dave Sampson Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 8:46 AM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO projects and Python 3.x Hey Folks, I am wondering what, if any, projects are preparing or planning for a move to support python 3.x. Due to it being a major release I understand it does not come with backwards compatibility, however there are some tools out there to help with this. and of course there is surely to be lots of hands on tweaking. This also raises questions about projects using jython as it just released Jython 2.5.1 in september of 2009. If there are projects moving towards this assume there are libraries that will also have to create bindings and such. with the Public Address Geocoder project (http://www.pagcgeo.org/) I just created python bindings for the library. I am wondering if I should go ahead with python 3.x bindings. Using SWIG this should not be a challenge. so what are people doing with python 3? Cheers ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Warning: Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
