[cctbxbb] State of python3 support?

[Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve]

Hi Jan,
I've been looking at Python 3 quite a bit. Currently it doesn't
offer any advantages that would justify the fairly large investment
in time needed for the conversion.
IIUC not even numpy supports Python 3 yet.
For Phenix we rely on a large number of additional packages,
most importantly wxpython.
I figure it will be several years still before it is realistic
for us to switch over.
Ralf




----- Original Message ----
> From: Jan Marten Simons <marten at xtal.rwth-aachen.de>
> To: cctbx mailing list <cctbxbb at phenix-online.org>
> Sent: Mon, December 13, 2010 5:40:54 AM
> Subject: [cctbxbb] State of python3 support?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> as I've noticed from the changelogs cctbx is closely following python  2.x 
> releases. Now I wonder if there are plans to move over to python3  soon?
> If I got it right, python 2.6 and 2.7 already offer most of python3  features 
> and syntax as optional modules, so that the code can be prepared in  advance 
> (like converting print into print()-functions etc. 
> [1] has some  ideas on why and how to do a port.
> 
> So I'm interested in your thoughts  about python3 and cctbx.
> 
> [1]  http://peadrop.com/blog/2009/04/05/porting-your-code-to-python-3/
> 
> 
> With  regards,
> 
>   Jan M. Simons
> 
> Institute of  Crystallography
> RWTH  Aachen
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