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

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