[petsc-dev] Python version

[Shao-Ching Huang]

Hi,

This may be of interest -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/3

Regards,
Shao-Ching


On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Karl Rupp <rupp at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>>     I was actually thinking of the Python interface for PETSc rather
>>     than the build system. For the build system we should support any
>>     2.x version. And, even worse, I expect that at some point both 2.x
>>     and 3.x need to be supported concurrently...
>>
>>
>> I don't think we'll support 3.x until dropping support for 2.5 (because
>> 2.6 is the first version that has compatible exception-handling syntax).
>> It's pretty important to have a single source.
>
>
> We will be certainly fine as long as mainstream distributions keep shipping
> any 2.x version of python. This will certainly be the case for a couple of
> years just because of the large amounts of code available.
>
> Best regards,
> Karli
>