Being somewhat unfamiliar with Python I needed to have a QGIS plugin to debug my code.

I modified the QGIS remote debug code for the QGIS 2.99 development version. It works on Ubuntu 16.04 and is forked from the GitHub site for the qgis-remote-debug plugin.

This brought about a few questions:

1. Are plugins going to be a complete break from QGIS < 2.99 in moving forward to Python 3.5, Qt5.7, etc?

2. Is 2to3 the only way to go? I didn't use it but it probably would have been easier.

3. Is a plugin supposed to be backward compatible from Python 3.5+ and Qt5.7 to Python 2.7 or less and Qt4?

4. How does one code to make the plugin work in the QGIS <= 2.18 and QGIS >= 2.99?

5. How is python-six, python3-six, or pypy-six supposed to be used or python-future for that matter?

Any pointers will definitely help me produce more useful code.

Gordon

On 2016-11-10 18:37, [email protected] wrote:
The complication is that the plugin has to require a minimum QGIS
version of 2.99 but will will only show in the list if it is QGIS 3.0.

I have a remote debug version plugin that works on Ubuntu 16.04, QGIS
2.99 dev, and Eclipse Oxygen with PyQGIS3 (Python3) environment and
PyDev but getting the code in-place wasn't automatic.  I manually
copied it over to ~/apps/share/qgis/python/plugins.  To use on Ubuntu
16.04 .qgis3 (Python 3) and .qgis2 (Python 2) are hidden folders on
Ubuntu - so in Files-View-Show Hidden Files has to be activated before
the environment can be setup.

How is one supposed to make plugins backward compatible?  Import
syntax seems to be very different in Python 3 and print statement
syntax (among other changes) is also very different.  Can plugins pass
Python 2 and Python 3 lint checks or compilation?  How does one do
that?  The compiled python files (.pyc) are in a cache folder rather
in the same folder as .py files.  This is an intentional difference
but do they work or are they redundant?

Gordon

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