[vtk-developers] VTK-py3k is ready for testing

[David Gobbi]

Thanks, Andrew.  I just pushed the CommonCore test updates to the branch.

 - David


On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Andrew Maclean <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Wonderful news.
>
> Definitely be glad to help.
> Setting up a Python 3.4 environment in Windows 10 on my laptop now.
> I'll be using Anaconda Python.
>
> Once this is done, I'll maintain both a python 2.7 and Python 3.4 build
> and see how things go.
>
> Regards
>    Andrew
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:44 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So, here's a brief update on python 3 status:
>>
>> The python-py3k merge branch compiles and runs with Python 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
>> and also Python 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 (I tried all six).  So, yes, you can build
>> VTK against Python 3, and you can run VTK programs with Python 3.  I'll be
>> doing a bit of cleanup of the next few days, but the current branch is very
>> close to what I plan to merge.
>>
>> However: the test code in VTK is all written for Python 2, so right now
>> the Python 3 buildbot that Ben has set up is showing all red for the
>> testing.  Converting the tests will be a lot of work, especially because
>> the tests must continue to run with Python 2.6 and 2.7 (definitely not 2.5,
>> though).  Andrew, you mentioned that you might be able to provide some
>> assistance, I would be very grateful for anything you have to offer.
>>
>> I've already begun converting the python tests in Common/Core, because
>> these test the core features of the wrappers.
>>
>>  - David
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