On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Greg Kuperberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 26, 3:06 pm, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: >> No. Sage uses python 2.6, and will for at least the next year. > > You can add my support for changing Sage to Python 3. I know that it > would be a ton of work to switch and I also don't mean to ask > impatiently. > But I think that it will just get more and more important over time. > Python 3 has a lot of long overdue simplifications to Python. Guido > van > Rossum is still on top of his game.
Sage can't switch to Python 3 until every single Python package in Sage is ported to Python 3. This is far from done. It's possible that for some packages, nobody is even working on doing a port. In such cases, our only hope is to either do the port ourselves or remove the package from Sage, which may both be incredibly difficult. I've heard Twisted may be an example of such a package, but there might be others. Even numpy hasn't been ported to Python 3 yet, though at least there work is rumored to be in progress. -- William -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
