On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 3/10/12 9:56 AM, William Stein wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Have you ever wondered how difficult it might be to switch Sage from >> Python 2.7 to Python 3.x? Some students in my course made a webpage >> that summarizes the Python 3 support status of the Python packages >> that Sage depends on: >> >> http://wstein.org/edu/2012/1062/projects/final/miloshevich-nason/ >> >> Interesting examples: >> >> * Matplotlib doesn't support Python 3.x at all yet. > > > I believe that this is in a branch, and will be merged into matplotlib > mainline after the next release. IIRC, the work is done already. > > > >> >> * Mercurial doesn't support Python 3.x, and they don't have any >> plans to do so. (Which is another point in favor switching Sage to >> GIT.) > > > Git supports python3? :)
More to the point: git is a C program so it does not *require* Python 2. I would rather not ship both Python 2 and Python 3 with Sage. > That's interesting that Mercurial doesn't have any plans to support > python3... I can't imagine why... > > Jason > > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
