[vtk-developers] Update: Making Tests Python 3/2 compatible.

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 3:01 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Very nice.  On my machine I see only six failures.  This is with Python 3.2,
> and apparently no NetCDF.
>
> The following tests FAILED:
> 354 - vtkCommonDataModelPython-TestTemplates (Failed)
> 969 - vtkFiltersSourcesPython-squadViewer (Failed)
> 1944 - vtkRenderingTkPython-cursor3D (Failed)
> 1945 - vtkRenderingTkPython-TestTextActor3D (Failed)
> 1946 - vtkRenderingTkPython-TestTkRenderWidget (Failed)
> 1947 - vtkRenderingTkPython-TestTkRenderWindowInteractor (Failed)
>
> The TestTemplates seems to be a simple syntax error, the "u" string prefix
> is not allowed in python 3.2.
>     354:   File "Common/DataModel/Testing/Python/TestTemplates.py", line 56
>     354:     value = u"hello"

Is it worth requiring Python 3.3 or higher to fix this?   I doubt
you'll have many Python 3.2 users, even if you released now - Python
3.4 has been around for a while now.

Cheers,

Matthew