[SciPy-Dev] [GSOC 2018 Project Thread]: Rotation formalism in 3 dimensions

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Eric Larson <larson.eric.d at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>>    1. Since this project will include documentation, I'm trying to build
>>    the docs. However, from the Makefile at scipy/doc it appears that
>>    python3.6 is required, whereas only python3.5 is available for my platform
>>    (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS). I generally try to avoid adding third-party repos
>>    unless absolutely required, so I am asking for help here. Is installing
>>    python3.6 the only solution, or will changing the PYVERS variable in
>>    the Makefile work?
>>
>> I suspect 3.5 should work once you get it to use your Python binaries. I
> doubt we have anything that is Python-3.6 specific (though there very well
> be some Python 3-isms that will not work on 2.7).
>

There's a PYVER=3.6 at the top of the Makefile. Simply doing `make html
PYVER=3.5` should build the docs with your 3.5 install (if not, change that
one line in the Makefile to say 3.5).

Ralf
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