[GRASS-dev] Python 3 or Python 2.6?

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Dear all,

I'm updating the GRASS build environment for MS Windows, and looking for some news in the dependencies I found that Python is currently shipped in two versions: 2.6.1 and 3.
What should I install? Thanks,

Marco

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Hi,

2008/12/16 Marco Pasetti <marcopstt@gmail.com>:

I'm updating the GRASS build environment for MS Windows, and looking for
some news in the dependencies I found that Python is currently shipped in
two versions: 2.6.1 and 3.
What should I install? Thanks,

2.6.x for sure. Python 3 is not supported.

Martin

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Hi Martin,

I'm updating the GRASS build environment for MS Windows, and looking for
some news in the dependencies I found that Python is currently shipped in
two versions: 2.6.1 and 3.
What should I install? Thanks,

2.6.x for sure. Python 3 is not supported.

Ok. Thanks.

Marco

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Martin Landa wrote:

> I'm updating the GRASS build environment for MS Windows, and looking for
> some news in the dependencies I found that Python is currently shipped in
> two versions: 2.6.1 and 3.
> What should I install? Thanks,

2.6.x for sure. Python 3 is not supported.

And probably won't be soon. Or ever (we would do better moving to
another language than to Python 3).

Python 3 is a disaster on non-Windows systems due to an outbreak of
Unicode fundamentalism. E.g. you can't get the original byte strings
for argv, only the Unicode versions (*if* it manages to convert them
to Unicode; if any argv[i] isn't text in your locale's encoding, you
lose).

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