[vtkusers] VTK Python3 support

[Tarcísio Fischer]

Nice. Good to know. Thank you very much :)

2015-03-05 14:21 GMT-03:00 David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>:

> As far as I'm aware, python 3 support hasn't moved forward since the last
> time it came up on the list.  I think that, for too many of us, python is
> python and python2 is available on every machine we use.
>
> Issues:
> 1) VTK wrapping still uses old-style classes.  I've been meaning to fix
> this.
> 2) Basic compile issues and cross-compatibility for py3 and py2 - we
> received a patch that fixes some of these issues.
> 3) Conversion of examples and tests to py3... this is a biggie!  Lots of
> community help required.
>
> Overall, I've just been waiting for py3k to become dominant... but python2
> is still the default python on OS X and on most of the linux systems that I
> use.  My guess is that Kitware is in the same position.  The demand for
> py3k support just doesn't seem to be there yet, even after all these years.
>
> So of course, if anyone out there has a need for py3k, please let us
> know!  Compatibility with Blender has come up before.
>
>  - David
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Tarcísio Fischer <
> tarcisio.fischer.cco at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I saw that we now have vtk6.2.0, I was just wondering... How is python3
>> support going? How far are we from full python3 support?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
>
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