[GRASS-dev] Python 3 or Python 2.6?

Michael Barton michael.barton at asu.edu
Tue Dec 16 10:09:53 EST 2008



On Dec 16, 2008, at 3:36 AM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org> <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org 
 > wrote:

> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:36:43 +0100
> From: "Marco Pasetti" <marcopstt at gmail.com>
> Subject: [GRASS-dev] Python 3 or Python 2.6?
> To: "GRASS Developer Mailing List" <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
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> Dear all,
>
> I'm updating the GRASS build environment for MS Windows, and looking  
> for
> some news in the dependencies I found that Python is currently  
> shipped in
> two versions: 2.6.1 and 3.
> What should I install? Thanks,
>
> Marco

I have not tried Python 3, but the docs say that it is not backward  
compatible with Python 2.x. So I'd stick with 2.6.

Has anyone out there tried Python 3?

Michael


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