[Twisted-Python] Python 3

2010-09-21 Thread James Mansion
I found it hard to tell what the level of support is for Python 3 - particularly on 64 bit Windows 7. I found some tickets in trac, but othewise no clear statement. Is Twisted 10.x OK on Python 3? James ___ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python

Re: [Twisted-Python] Python 3

2010-09-21 Thread Itamar Turner-Trauring
> I found it hard to tell what the level of support is for Python 3 - > particularly on 64 bit Windows 7. > > I found some tickets in trac, but othewise no clear statement. > > Is Twisted 10.x OK on Python 3? No. Supporting Python 3 takes a large amount of effort which, as a mostly volunteer drive

Re: [Twisted-Python] Python 3

2010-09-21 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
On Sep 21, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Itamar Turner-Trauring wrote: > No. Supporting Python 3 takes a large amount of effort which, as a mostly > volunteer driven organization, Twisted cannot afford at the moment. However, as a volunteer driven organization, you may change this at any time by simply vol

Re: [Twisted-Python] Python 3

2010-09-21 Thread Laurens Van Houtven
Nope. It wouldn't be excessively hard to do, once some of the sillier missing methods on bytes objects are fixed -- it's just not very much of a priority. Twisted is used for a lot of production apps which often aren't even deployed on recent versions of 2.x, let alone 3.x, so supporting 2.x prope

Re: [Twisted-Python] Python 3

2010-09-21 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
On Sep 21, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Laurens Van Houtven wrote: > 64 bit vs 32 bit shouldn't be a problem since Twisted is just Python. That's not accurate at all, since there are lots of places that Python can be broken (the struct module, in particular) with respect to 64-bit. Plus, Twisted has a l