[GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] experimental Python 3 support in trunk

[Anna Petrášová]

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 2:28 AM Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 4:21 AM Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I committed the experimental support of Python 3 to trunk (grass77) by
> Sanjeet (GSoC 2018).
>
> This is excellent, thanks for much for your hard work, Sanjeet, Anna
> and all involved!
>
> > In the first stage of testing, we need to make sure GRASS can compile
> and run with Python 2 without problems. Python 3 support is highly
> experimental, we are still having problems with ctypes and libraries using
> them. However, you should be able to compile GRASS, launch GUI and run
> modules. I tested it on Ubuntu 16.04 with Python 2.7 and Python 3.5
> (virtualenv), utf8 English locale, other platforms were not tested.
>
> Could you please post a few lines how to properly do the testing with
> virtualenv?
>

https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Python3Support#Howtotest

also, we have now new small dependency - Python 'six' package


> > For reporting bugs related to this, please create tickets and put
> 'Python3' as keyword (even for problems running GRASS on Python2 related to
> this commit).
> >
> > Anna
>
> thanks again,
> Markus
>
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