[Image-SIG] Adding Python 3 support

[Christoph Gohlke]

On 10/8/2012 4:56 PM, Hajime Nakagami wrote:
> Hi Brian, and all
>
> I'm trying to suport python3.3 and python2.7 by one source
>
> https://github.com/nakagami/Pillow
> (please checkout py33py27 branch)
>
> It seems to work at gif, jpeg and png. But other many image format
> still not work.
> That's most import bug(?) is only support Python2.7 and Python3.3
>
> If you need widely version support, Probabry use 2to3 approach.
>
> thanks
>
>
> 2012/10/8 Brian Crowell <brian at fluggo.com>:
>> Hi. I'm interested in helping bring PIL to Python 3.
>>
>> I contacted Matthias Klose, the package maintainer for PIL, to see
>> which codebase he thought would be best to do that on, and he pointed
>> me to Pillow, so I'm here to ask about what's been done so far for
>> Python 3 support and what I could do.
>>
>> I noticed there was a patch series porting PIL 1.1.6 to Py3k about
>> four years ago at https://github.com/sloonz/pil-py3k. Barring anything
>> else, it seemed like the best plan would be to port that patch series
>> forward to Pillow, since the hardest thing about the conversion will
>> be the bytes vs. str division, and that patch series claims to have
>> worked out a lot of the kinks.
>>
>> The key question seems to be: What's the earliest version of Python
>> you would want to support afterwards? Supporting earlier than 2.6
>> isn't so hard in the C code, but might be difficult in the Python
>> code.
>>
>> Let me know your thoughts on this, and if anyone's beaten me to working on this.
>>
>> --Brian


See also 
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2010-December/006625.html>.

Christoph