My bad - I hadn't looked into the v4 docs.

On Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 3:48:32 PM UTC-8, Tom Keffer wrote:
>
> Ralph, the docs that come with WeeWX v4 should be correct. If you found a 
> mistake, please post it!
>
> As for the Wiki, it will take some time for all the extension publishers 
> to switch to Python 3.
>
> -tk
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 4:27 PM Ralph Underwood <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> It was relatively painless to convert/upgrade my python code to 3.7.  A 
>> few stumbles as the great internet  has many wrong examples and 
>> "solutions". For instance trying to install pyehem - what worked is *sudo 
>> pip3 install ephem* 
>>
>> Same kind of issues with install the mosquitto and paho client - being 
>> sure that the solutions are valid for python 3
>>
>> (google sure does like to "fix" spelling)
>>
>> I think that there will be a lot of work to update the docs and wiki for 
>> version 4 - probably can't get it done this year :)
>>
>> happy New Year.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 3:13:59 PM UTC-8, Tom Keffer wrote:
>>>
>>> Come on, Python 2.6 is over 11 years old, and hasn't been supported for 
>>> well over 6 years! Time to upgrade! 
>>>
>>> If you're running Python 3, WeeWX requires Python v3.5 or greater. 
>>> Versions before that do not support % formatting of bytes and bytearrays.
>>>
>>> Not sure what the problem is. Are you two using an old version of 
>>> configobj? That could do it. Try
>>>
>>> *python -c "import configobj; print(configobj.__version__)"*
>>>
>>>
>>> -tk
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 11:42 AM Vince Skahan <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Monday, December 30, 2019 at 1:28:50 PM UTC-8, Tom Keffer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> ... is up. In the usual spot. 
>>>>> http://weewx.com/downloads/development_versions/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Does b6 have a minimum python version ?
>>>>
>>>> Rolled the dice and tried an upgrade of my ancient Seagate Dockstar 
>>>> 3.9.0 to beta-6.  Fail on startup.
>>>>
>>>> Python is 2.7.3,  debian version is 7.6
>>>> I'd have to compile my own python pieces from source to get a current 
>>>> version if you wanted me to try that.
>>>> Same goes for trying to get to python3.  Nothing newer than 3.2.3 
>>>> available precompiled for this box.
>>>>
>>>> root@debian:/home/src/weewx-4.0.0b6# service weewx start
>>>> [....] Starting weewx weather system: weewxTraceback (most recent call 
>>>> last):
>>>>   File "/home/weewx/bin/weewxd", line 16, in <module>
>>>>     import weewx.engine
>>>>   File "/home/weewx/bin/weewx/engine.py", line 30, in <module>
>>>>     import weewx.accum
>>>>   File "/home/weewx/bin/weewx/accum.py", line 95, in <module>
>>>>     defaults_dict = configobj.ConfigObj(StringIO(DEFAULTS_INI), 
>>>> encoding='utf-8')
>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1230, in 
>>>> __init__
>>>>     self._load(infile, configspec)
>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1290, in 
>>>> _load
>>>>     infile = self._handle_bom(infile)
>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1430, in 
>>>> _handle_bom
>>>>     if not line.startswith(BOM):
>>>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 0: 
>>>> ordinal not in range(128)
>>>>  failed!
>>>>
>>>>  
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