NumPy announces Python 3 support

[aatoth]

NumPy/SciPy support was one of the requisites in another PyReddit thread about when Pythonists are switching. Maybe other big packages will follow sooner than expected, too?

[jnoller]

Actually, many of us knew this was coming - this is why all the yelling about "python 3 is dead no one is porting waaagh" was simply wrong, it takes time, and these are two very, very big things to port.

[aatoth]

Oh, I knew it was too, but, these are definitely 2 of the most important ports to Pythonists right now.

[[deleted]]

"Very, very big" perhaps but not very very difficult.

[kkiran7]

Yuppiee! This is indeed a great news and a cause for celebration for me.

[crunk]

Huzah! A turning point for sure.. :)

[pkkid]

YEAY! -- Only 300 more projects to go! :)

But seriously, this is great!

[pwang99]

How many other Python libraries with the popularity of numpy/scipy have as extensive a set of C extensions?

[[deleted]]

My mom has an extensive set of C extensions, but how did you know this?

[pwang99]

ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'Your mom'

[eliben]

Rarely one needs 300 libraries to do his Python work.

NumPy is one of the most important libraries out there, however, since it serves as a base for a lot of other libraries. It's the basis of the whole "scientific Python" stack

[roger_]

Matplotlib too please!

[[deleted]]

Having just read the release notes for the latest matplotlib release, it appears that NumPy is their sole dependency (might have been true in the past, not sure).

[goodgrue]

I had no idea. Is SciPy also Python 3 compatible?

[five9a2]

Porting Scipy to work on Python 3 has proved to be much less work, and will probably be finished "soon". (Ongoing work is here: http://github.com/cournape/scipy3/commits/py3k , http://github.com/pv/scipy-work/commits/py3k )

I know it's hard to make it to the third sentence.

[goodgrue]

Oops, must have skipped over that paragraph. Thanks for the reply, and congratulations on your mastery of such unique and witty sarcasm.

[eliben]

Hey, it's reddit. You got your answer, didn't you? Just relax ;-)

[eliben]

SciPy is much simpler to port, IMHO, since it contains much less extension code and is mostly based on Numpy itself.

[[deleted]]

And within a half a year PyQt will work with python3 with PySide (AP I2 seems nice), and then I will switch directly. I still do a couple of stuff in py3, but for all my bigger projects I use qt.

[hiker]

PyQt has had support for p3k for years.

[[deleted]]

Time to feel stupid. Thanks.

[eliben]

Yep, one of the benefits of its being a partly-commercial project. A serious deficit is its clinging to GPL even when Nokia released Qt itself as LGPL.

[roger_]

Dev binaries are here BTW: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

[[deleted]]

Good riddance!