[pygtk] building pygtk applications using python3.1

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:52, A.T.Hofkamp <a.t.hofkamp at tue.nl> wrote:
> goli wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am a newbie to the python language, I used pygtk with python2.6 for a
>> week, now I want to switch to python3.
>
> You should not do that, it is too early to use Python 3.
>
>> I installed python3.1 and wrote a simple app to test it using pygtk. but
>> python compiler says that it can't import pygtk.
>
> Python 3 is at the point where the language is more or less stable, and library authors can start to
> convert their library to the new version. Thus it is quite unlikely that you will find pygtk for
> python 3 in your distribution.
> (ie you can run 'python3', but there are no libraries that you can import).
>
>> I reinstalled python bindings for gtk (python-gtk on ubuntu), but no
>> modules added for python3.
>
> Even if you had pygtk for Python 3, there are lots of other libraries that are not converted yet,
> and thus are not available.
> No doubt you are welcome to assist in the conversion effort of pygtk to the new python 3.
>
> If you don't want to do that, you should not use Python 3. In particular, since almost all tutorials
> on Python assume Python 2. Also almost all Python code that exists is for Python 2.
>
>> Is it really possible to use them together, or am I missing some points?
>
> I don't know who, but surely some people are working on the conversion, and they probably welcome
> your help.
> In that case, it is likely that you will have to build a pygtk installation from source code,
> directly from a checkout of the repository.
>
> If you don't understand what I am saying, you better switch back to python 2.6, and enjoy pygtk.

Hi, some links about this:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566641
http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/Python2010

Regards,

Tomeu

>
> Albert
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