[AstroPy] Plan to port astropy to python3?

[Michael Droettboom]

Are you referring to master, or the py3k branch? [1]

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib-py3

Mike

On 06/07/2011 03:23 PM, Thomas Robitaille wrote:
> Matplotlib is indeed not compiling nicely with Python 3.2. However, just for info, I can confirm Scipy 0.9.0 and Numpy 1.6.0 do compile with Python 3.2 out of the box.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Peter Erwin wrote:
>> As Prasanth points out, the "Python 3 support" in matplotlib is obviously still in the
>> bleeding-edge development stage. I have the impression the same is true for pyfits
>> (the latest official release, 2.4.0, only lists "Python 2.4 to 2.7") and also for ipython.
>>
>> So Xavier Gnata's "numpy,scipy,matplotlib and pyfits are now working with python3"
>> should perhaps be interpreted as "these packages are either working with Python 3,
>> or there is active development on Python 3 versions" ... which is arguably reason enough
>> to start thinking about Python 3 versions of other things.
>>
>> (The official Mac OS X binary releases for numpy and scipy are still Python 2 only, which
>> precludes my experimenting with them, as I don't really want to go to the trouble
>> of compiling from source, given that the 2.x versions install quite nicely.)
>>
>>   -- Peter
>>
>> On Jun 7, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Prasanth wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> This is a work in progress: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib-py3/wiki.
>>>
>>> Prasanth
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Mark Sienkiewicz<sienkiew at stsci.edu (mailto:sienkiew at stsci.edu)>  wrote:
>>> Thomas Robitaille wrote:
>>>>   In the end, one could argue that it's up to us to support Python 3 soon, because there won't be a large astronomy user base in Python 3 until we do (otherwise it's a vicious circle). The fact that numpy/scipy/matplotlib have moved means we should probably start thinking about it too.
>>>
>>> Can you tell me where to find a matplotlib release that works with
>>> python 3? According to their web site, it only works in python 2:
>>>
>>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html#build-requirements
>>>
>>> Mark S.
>>>
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Michael Droettboom
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