2009/7/30 Francesco Bochicchio <bieff...@gmail.com>: > On 30 Lug, 01:55, Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe+thun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> There appears to be no way to search PyPI for packages that are >> compatible with Python 3.x. There are classifiers for 'Programming >> Language' including 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3' but that seems >> to be for implementation language since there are so many packages that >> specify C. There are a total of 109 packages classified with Python :: >> [3, 3.0, 3.1] out of a total of 4829 >> packages.http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browse&show=all&c=214&c=533 >> >> The search box appears to search for any word entered so a search >> like "xml 3.0" or "xml AND 3.0" does not help. >> >> Some packages include version information in the Py Version column of >> their download lists or embedded in the download file names. Projects >> are often constrained to a particular set of Python versions so need to >> choose packages that will work with those versions. It would be helpful >> if PyPI made this information more visible and searchable. >> >> Neil > > Are you sure? I note that for example pygtk has as language tags both > C and python. So maybe a C extension > for python3 would have both C and python 3 as language tags. > > I suspect that the 109 packages you found are the only ones obf the > 4829 which works with python3 (but I hope > to be wrong ).
Also, of course, they may not be the only ones that work, but merely the only ones where the author has checked they work and tagged the entry. It's quite possible that some packages will work unmodified... Paul. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
