Python

majiq · 2009-09-02 21:42:39

Hey all. This is really just to Allan, I suppose, but I thought this is nicer than an e-mail. Also, it lets others who have the same question get some knowledge too.

I was just wondering how the transition to python 3 is going. I was writing a script earlier with python 3.1 documentation (assuming - my bad), and then afterwards checked the installed version. Also, what about 3.1? Any ideas? Or updates to share?

Again, I would check the bug tracker, but unfortunately it's still not up.

ghostHack · 2009-09-02 22:00:30

Not quite sure what you are asking here but Python3 is in [community]

[root@caltasp ~]# pacman -Ss python3
community/python3 3.1.1-1
    Next generation of the python high-level scripting language

sand_man · 2009-09-02 22:40:14

Both versions are in the repos.

Allan · 2009-09-02 23:15:51

The transition will probably not happen very soon.... Most packages are not quite clever enough to build against a "python2" binary and adjust the "/usr/bin/env python" lines accordingly. That only requires a simple sed, but there are a lot of packages requiring it...

At the moment, the only major toolkit supporting python3 is pyqt and none of its major applications (read KDE) do. So I judge there is no rush for the transition at the moment (and I have a couple of large rebuilds in the future anyway.... libldap and a new heimdal release).

Edit: here is a link showing how much work this transition is going to be: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dev … transition

Dusty · 2009-09-03 04:27:45

Hehe, Python 3.

I have five python interpreters installed on my laptop right now, and thinking of adding a sixth... am I crazy?

Dusty

majiq · 2009-09-03 06:37:58

@ghosthack and sandman: It didn't occur to me while reading the output of pacman -Ss python that 3 comes after -. My bad. Also, in an old thread I read Allan's original idea of having python be python 3.0 and python2 be a separate package (I think that's what it was), so I was just wondering what had actually come of that.

@Allan: Thanks for the update.

@Dusty: ...

moljac024 · 2009-09-03 08:52:14

Dusty wrote:

Hehe, Python 3.
I have five python interpreters installed on my laptop right now, and thinking of adding a sixth... am I crazy?
Dusty

Yes, yes, you are.

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