Re: [Pytables-users] [Pytables-announce] ANN: PyTables 2.4.0 beta1

[Francesc A. <fa...@py...>]

On 7/11/12 7:06 PM, Antonio Valentino wrote:
>
>> BTW, which is the status of the 3.x support?  I vaguely remember
>> you asking me for some help on this, but I don't remember well. Not
>> that I have a lot of time to spend on it, but perhaps I can use
>> some hours in the next days.
> well, in PyTables 2.4 we made some job in preparation of the porting
> to python3, but the porting itself is still not started.
>
> One of the main issues is that numexpr still not supports python3 so
> we have a missing dependency.
>
> I started a porting of numexpr to python3 (see [1]) but it is still
> incomplete.
> I hope it is good enough to let us start working on the porting of
> PyTables.
>
> Of course if you would like to give a look to numexpr for python3 it
> would be of great help.

Ah yes.  I have also tried with the porting of numexpr to python3, but 
failed.  I'll try to have a look at your patches and see if we can make 
it.  Not sure when I'll have time to tackle this, but hopefully I'll be 
able to tell you something soon.

>
> After the PyTables 2.4 final I plan to publish a wiki page with my
> roadmap proposal. IMHO main points are:
>
> * open a new branch in the repo
> * remove al deprecated code (Numeric, numarray, netcdf3, etc). This
> breaks the API and, IMHO, we will also need to bump the format version
> * ensure that all the required SW work (enough) on python3
> * handle str/unicode issues
> * full support to unicode HDF5 object names
> * start working an a good setup for 2to3 (needs some investigation)
> * ...
>
> Please let me know if you think there are other point that are
> important for python3 support

Ok.  That looks good.  This is a lot of work though, but I hope you will 
manage.

Thanks for the fine work!

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Francesc Alted