Dave Greene - 2020-06-27

Would it be worthwile porting python plugin support in golly to python3?
Or may[b]e remove python support completely?

It's definitely worthwhile to make the move to Python 3 at some point. There's a large existing codebase of Python 2 scripts in common use, so it doesn't make much sense to remove Python support completely. For the most part existing scripts will work in Python 3 with only very minimal changes needed, if any at all -- there aren't any print statements in most Golly scripts, converting 'xrange' to 'range' is trivial, etc.

The main issue is that Python 2 is still perfectly functional just at the moment, and no one has stepped up yet to tackle the tricky cross-platform update process.

However, a partially successful experimental effort is documented here on the conwaylife.com forums.

 

Last edit: Dave Greene 2020-06-30