Hi,
To add to the discussion, consider learning six
(http://packages.python.org/six/) and make your code work on both 2 and 3 and
as future-proof as possible :-)
Eddie
On Dec 20, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Greg Landrum wrote:
> Dear Jim
>
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Jim Rathman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I’ve searched the mailing list archives and haven’t seen much about the
> status of RDKit for Python 3. Is there a current implementation of RDKit
> compatible with Python 3; if not, is there a timeline for this happening. I’m
> a new Python user and wondering whether I should focus on learning Python 2.7
> or 3. Seems like most of the other components I’ll need are available for
> Python 3.3 (numpy, scipy, matplotlib, …) but if RDKit is not ready for 3 then
> I’ll stick with 2.7 for now.
>
> There currently is no python3 support for the RDKit. Uwe Hoffmann created a
> branch with an initial version of a port --
> http://sourceforge.net/p/rdk-py3-branch -- but I've never managed to find the
> time to pick it up and do much with it and I have yet to see much demand for
> it.
>
> It's definitely getting to be time to think about having a python3 version of
> the RDKit, and I will probably try to build on Uwe's starting point sometime
> next year, but for now you pretty much need to go with python 2.7. It's
> probably worth reading one of the python2->python3 porting guides to make
> sure your code is reasonably easy to move once that time comes.
>
> Best,
> -greg
>
>
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