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[Graham Cantin <kamilion@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm interested in helping; getting python3 cemented in as many places as
possible is on my list of stuff that needs doing.
Just recently landed a bunch of fixes in Customizer [1], since it had a
python rewrite.

Their code is now something like 99% python3 compliant and runs under
python2.7 and 3.4 with the same codebase.
There's still one or two problems that py3 throws, but once I track the
issue down, it'll probably end up to be a one or two line fix.

The biggest issue with python2/3 on the same codebase is mostly in how the
programmer utilizes the available constructs -- It's encouraged to use the
u'I am a {} unicode {} string'.format("beautifully", "formatted")
construct, which was missing from python 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2.

So far I've not noticed any issues with 3.4/3.5 compatibility while using
15.10, other than the slight annoyance that python3-dev is still pointed at
3.4, but python3-pip wants to use python3.5-dev for building C extensions
(like scrypt or uwsgi).



[1]: https://github.com/clearkimura/Customizer/pull/110

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have quick look on it, it's definitely something we should look to
> replace LSC :
> - Python 3
> - Same packages tech than LSC (aptdaemon)
> - Read partner repos
> - Less memory usage than LSC at startup
>
> That's definitely an option to study, even for the 16.04 LTS. It
> probably needs some UI tweaking, but that may be possible for next
> release.
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>
> 2015-09-28 5:41 GMT+02:00 Walter Lapchynski <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Thanks to Simon Quigley (tsimonq2), I was watching a recent Linux Action
> > Show and they mentioned this nice user-friendly alternative to the Ubuntu
> > Software Center called [AppGrid][1]. It's built from the ground up and
> > focused on speed in Python. That's about all I know about it, but I'm
> > thinking that there may be some benefit to consider hacking this to use a
> > limited set of packages and making it ours? I can see it's using GTK+, so
> > there's that to worry about it, too, but that may or may not be easy.
> Just
> > passing it on if it's of interest to anyone. :)
> >
> > [1]: https://launchpad.net/appgrid
> >
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