Hi James, On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:52 AM, James Pearson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Christophe BAL <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> do you think that one day sympy will be avaible for Python 3 ? > > Considering that Python 3.0 was released in December '08, it would be nice > to see SymPy at least start moving in that direction. > > The difficulty is that Python3 is backwards-incompatible, meaning that > either two concurrent branches must be maintained, or SymPy has to switch > completely at some point in time. The latter is difficult due to a sort of > Catch-22 with libraries - people don't move over their projects to Py3 > because they rely on other code that hasn't moved, and the other code hasn't > moved because of the same thing. > > Now, I've been told that 2to3 should work perfectly, and any issues with the > code generated from it are actually things that should be fixed in the > Python 2.x codebase. I've also been told that that's bollocks. > > Anyways, there is a task[0] for it in the issue tracker, so you can keep > track of its progress there. There's also some discussion in this > thread[1], linked to from the issue. > > [0]: http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1262 > [1]: > http://groups.google.com/group/sympy/browse_thread/thread/9b730436cf602a64?pli=1
Yes. We need to find someone who would take a lead on this and start pushing things in. Would you have time to do it? I would help with testing and some things, as I spent quite some time porting it. I currently don't have time to be the one in charge of this. Ondrej -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. 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/sympy?hl=en.
