[AstroPy] Plan to port astropy to python3?

[Peter Erwin]

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> 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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