Thanks Carlos! This is a HUGE help. I post back to the list so others can benefit from your information. Thanks again!!
cheers, Jordan On Feb 18, 2008, at 5:14 AM, Carlos da Silva Santos wrote: > Dear Jordan, > > Python 3000 will break compatibility with older releases in many ways. > It is supposed that the transition from the 2.x series to the 3.x > series will take a long time. During this period, the 2.x will be > actively maintained and many features from the 3.x series will be > backported to 2.x in order to ease the transition. In addition, there > are automated tools to port code from python 2.x to python 3.x. If you > write 2.x code in a more "modern" way (for instance, using != instead > of <>) and follow some guidelines (see > http://wiki.python.org/moin/FutureProofPython) many of the deprecated > features are naturally avoided so your code will be more "py3k ready". > > Right now, very few (if any) third part libraries are ported to py3k, > so you will find yourself in a somewhat restricted environment. So I > recommend you to stick to the 2.x series for now but keep one eye on > the changes about to come in py3k. > > As you are targetting in scientific applications, you will probably be > interested in numpy/scipy/matplotlib which provide python with > matlab-like features. Take a look specially in scipy.ndimage: > http://www.scipy.org/SciPyPackages/Ndimage > > I hope this helps. > > []s > Carlos > > > On Feb 18, 2008 7:53 AM, Jordan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I am very interested in learning Python for pixel-based image >> manipulation for scientific applications, so it looks like PIL will >> be >> ideal. As I am new to Python, and Python 3000 is going to be released >> this year with "many deprecated features finally removed", I am >> considering starting properly with Python 3.0 rather than face a code >> migration later on. >> >> Will PIL play nicely with Python 3.0 alpha 2 (released on December >> 7th, 2007)? >> >> Please reply to me individually because I am not on the mailing list. >> >> ok, thanks! >> >> Jordan >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig >> > _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
