[GRASS-user] experimental Python 3 support in trunk

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2018, Anna Petrášová wrote:

> I committed the experimental support of Python 3 to trunk (grass77) by
> Sanjeet (GSoC 2018). 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.
>
> 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,

   Good news. Prior to my invoking grass I update from svn trunk; I see only
7.5 on the source code download page, not 7.7. Regardless, how do I tell
grass to use Python3?

Regards,

Rich