On 7/11/12 7:06 PM, Antonio Valentino wrote: > >> BTW, which is the status of the 3.x support? I vaguely remember >> you asking me for some help on this, but I don't remember well. Not >> that I have a lot of time to spend on it, but perhaps I can use >> some hours in the next days. > well, in PyTables 2.4 we made some job in preparation of the porting > to python3, but the porting itself is still not started. > > One of the main issues is that numexpr still not supports python3 so > we have a missing dependency. > > I started a porting of numexpr to python3 (see [1]) but it is still > incomplete. > I hope it is good enough to let us start working on the porting of > PyTables. > > Of course if you would like to give a look to numexpr for python3 it > would be of great help.
Ah yes. I have also tried with the porting of numexpr to python3, but failed. I'll try to have a look at your patches and see if we can make it. Not sure when I'll have time to tackle this, but hopefully I'll be able to tell you something soon. > > After the PyTables 2.4 final I plan to publish a wiki page with my > roadmap proposal. IMHO main points are: > > * open a new branch in the repo > * remove al deprecated code (Numeric, numarray, netcdf3, etc). This > breaks the API and, IMHO, we will also need to bump the format version > * ensure that all the required SW work (enough) on python3 > * handle str/unicode issues > * full support to unicode HDF5 object names > * start working an a good setup for 2to3 (needs some investigation) > * ... > > Please let me know if you think there are other point that are > important for python3 support Ok. That looks good. This is a lot of work though, but I hope you will manage. Thanks for the fine work! -- Francesc Alted ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
