[SciPy-Dev] weave for Python3.3 ?

Helmut Jarausch jarausch at igpm.rwth-aachen.de
Wed Jan 23 05:54:25 EST 2013


On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:59:33 +0100, Ralf Gommers wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
>> 22.01.2013 14:12, Helmut Jarausch kirjoitti:
>> > has anybody started to update weave for Python3.3?
>> > It's not a simple 2to3 call.
>>
>> Nobody, as far as I know.
> 
> 
> And if you're considering working on that: think really hard first about
> why you wouldn't move to Cython instead.
> 

Yes, I prefer Cython myself. But weave is still part of the GIT version of 
SciPy. And that's the reason why the installation of SciPy fails for 
Python3.3 since the weave parts cannot be (pre-)compiled during install.

What about removing weave altogether from SciPy?

Thanks,
Helmut





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