Bruce,
Just posted to the numpy list:
> I am pleased to announce the availability of the first release candidate of NumPy 1.5.0. This will be the first NumPy release to include support for Python 3, as well as for Python 2.7.
>
> Please try this RC and report any problems on the NumPy mailing list. Especially with Python 3 testing will be very useful. On Linux and OS X building from source should be straightforward, for Windows a binary installer is provided.
>
> Binaries, sources and release notes can be found at
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/
>
> Enjoy,
So support for python 3 is getting very close to official stage now.
-Jim
On Aug 21, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Peter Borcherds wrote:
> Dear Bruce
>
> Thank you for this excellent news, I am sure I am not the only member of the vpython community who recognises the enormous debt we owe you and your colleagues.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
>
> P H Borcherds +44 [0] 121 475 3029
> ________________________________
> From: Bruce Sherwood [bas...@nc...]
> Sent: 21 August 2010 06:28
> To: vpusers
> Subject: [Visualpython-users] VPython works on Python 3
>
> After quite a lot of changes to FontTools and a few changes to
> ttfquery, I've managed to get 3D text working on Python 3, which was
> the last thing needed to make a Python 3 version of VPython. I'll be
> in France for a couple weeks so there won't be a Python 3 version
> instantly, as I need to clean up some stuff. I'm accompanying Ruth
> Chabay, who has been invited to give a talk at an international
> physics education conference in Reims. She's going to talk about the
> computational modeling our physics students do using VPython.
>
> The problems I had to overcome were of course in areas where the 2to3
> conversion just couldn't do the job, due to data interpretation
> issues. I even found a couple of cases in ttfquery where there was N/2
> (giving 1.5 if N is 3) which should have been N//2 (giving 1 if N is
> 3). There was also a case of map returning a map instead of a list,
> and list(map(....)) wouldn't work.
>
> Bruce Sherwood
>
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