[ros-users] rospy and python 3.0

[Ken Conley]

Python 3.0 hasn't been a priority -- there are far more libraries that
don't support it yet, than do, and the non-backwards-compatibility of
Python 3.0 is a huge deterrent.

I tried as much as possible to be careful when writing rospy to
support as little of a leap as possible to Python 3.0, but this
carefulness has not been tested. I would happily accept compatibility
patches, but I don't know yet if it is possible to support Py2/3 out
of a single codebase, as scipy has done, or if it will require
forking, as some other libraries have done.

I'm planning on re-writing the inner i/o core of rospy, which may make
external porting efforts more difficult to maintain. I probably won't
do that re-write until e-turtle.

  - Ken

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Ruben Smits
<ruben.smits at mech.kuleuven.be> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
> I have some questions about the support for python 3.0 in rospy.
> I'm currently trying to use ros in Blender 2.5, but Blender 2.5 uses python
> 3.0 which is not supported yet by rospy.
>
> So my questions: is there any roadmap to add python 3.0 support to rospy at
> Willow Garage? How hard would it be to add python 3.0 support myself?
>
> Ruben
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