[AstroPy] Plan to port astropy to python3?

Thomas Robitaille thomas.robitaille at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 15:23:38 EDT 2011


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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