Matplotlib and Python 3

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Hi Everyone,

Quick question. Is matplotlib python 3 compatible? Has anyone switched to python 3? Anecdotally, how much of a pain is it to switch over, if you use common scientific libraries such as PIL and VTK?

Thanks
-Kaushik

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Kaushik Ghose wrote:

Hi Everyone,

Quick question. Is matplotlib python 3 compatible? Has anyone switched to python
3? Anecdotally, how much of a pain is it to switch over, if you use common
scientific libraries such as PIL and VTK?
  
matplotlib depends on numpy, and numpy on python 3 won't be finished
anytime soon - it will be a huge task.

David

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mpl also depends on CXX for extension code. I was heartened to see
that the python 3 migration is well underway in CXX svn. Since this
is most of our extension code, hopefully it will insulate from serious
difficulties porting the extension code. But we will have to wait for
CXX and numpy before we can do serious work.

JDH

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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:42 PM, David Cournapeau <david@...1387...> wrote:

Quick question. Is matplotlib python 3 compatible? Has anyone switched to python
3? Anecdotally, how much of a pain is it to switch over, if you use common
scientific libraries such as PIL and VTK?

matplotlib depends on numpy, and numpy on python 3 won't be finished
anytime soon - it will be a huge task.

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The bottleneck for Python 3 adoption is going to be the availability of compatible third party libraries. I’m using numpy, scipy, matplotlib, wxpython, pywin32 and py2exe, so I’m not even going to download python 3 until all these projects have moved to it.

Armando.

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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Kaushik Ghose <Kaushik_Ghose@…2126…> wrote:

Has anyone switched to python 3?

Thanks

-Kaushik