[Rivet] Python 3

[Frank Siegert]

Thanks David for going through this.

In fact, the differences in string (encoding) handling are exactly why
I never pushed a complete Python3 transition into the repository. In
particular the question of backward compatibility was by far
non-trivial. At this point now, do we agree to not care about Python
2.6 users (SL6!) anymore? That's fine by me.

Have you already implemented the fallbacks for that? I have a system
with Python3 as default, so could help testing if you want.

Cheers,
Frank


On 20 November 2017 at 14:08, David Grellscheid
<david.grellscheid at durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> 2to3 doesn't cover text IO very much, where Py3 (rightly) forces you to
> be careful about the encoding, and makes a strongly typed distinction
> between texts and byte sequences.
>
>   David
>
>
> Once it's checked, we can have emoji .info files ;-)
>
>
>
> On 18/11/2017 12:56, Andy Buckley wrote:
>> Thanks David. Actually, I thought I'd already done everything flagged
>> up by 2to3 other than the overzealous list() calls on every returned
>> iterator... guess I missed some.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> On 17 November 2017 at 22:33, David Grellscheid
>> <david.grellscheid at durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've gone through the core features of YODA and Rivet, and made them
>>> Python-3-compatible on the default branches. I have not tested all
>>> helper scripts yet, so if you notice anything odd, please let me know,
>>> and I'll fix it. I'll go through everything in the next days.
>>>
>>> Also, I haven't run a python 2.6 test yet, most likely the UI is broken
>>> for such old pythons now, and I'm not sure how much effort the
>>> compatibility would be yet, we'll need to see if it's even worth trying.
>>> Python 2.7.3 (April 2012) onwards should work.
>>>
>>> See you,
>>>
>>>   David
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Rivet mailing list
>>> Rivet at projects.hepforge.org
>>> https://www.hepforge.org/lists/listinfo/rivet
>>
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Rivet mailing list
> Rivet at projects.hepforge.org
> https://www.hepforge.org/lists/listinfo/rivet