Hi Charles,

Thanks for the heads up. Looking at BEAM-2784, most of the sub-tickets are
either DONE or IN PROGRESS, meaning that the futurization is almost
finished, right? Should I wait a bit, and then help to port/debug the test
code?

Sergei

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 10:43 PM Charles Chen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Sergei,
>
> Matthias and Robbe are actively working on this support.  Their plan is to
> futurize all relevant modules and then work on Beam Python 3 tests; this is
> being tracked in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-2784 and I
> added https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-4715 as well.  We can
> use https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-1251 to coordinate, as you
> suggest.
>
> Best,
> Charles
>
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 1:29 PM Sergei Lebedev <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The Beam Python SDK does not currently support Python 3. This limits the
>> use of Beam itself, as well as some other projects depending on it (e.g.
>> TensorFlow Model Analysis [1]).
>>
>> There is an ongoing effort on making the SDK Python 3-compatible (see
>> e.g. [2]). However, there is no up-to-date roadmap listing all the parts
>> involved and the corresponding status. Therefore my question: what would be
>> a good way to coordinate the work? Should I polish the umbrella ticket [3]
>> and do status updates there?
>>
>> I'd be happy to discuss this further either on the #beam-python Slack
>> channel, or directly on the mailing list.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sergei
>>
>> [1]: https://github.com/tensorflow/model-analysis/issues/8
>> [2]:
>> https://github.com/apache/beam/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+%22python+3%22
>> [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-1251
>>
>

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