[Scons-dev] That was easy…

[Neal Becker]

Tim Jenness wrote:

> 
>> On Dec 24, 2015, at 09:47 , Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> …well, sort of.
>> 
>> OK first major hurdle done: python3-port has now had default merged
>> into it. Enough of it works to be able to compile Fortran code using
>> this version of SCons on Python 2. Obviously (!) it all breaks using
>> Python 3, and (obviously) many, many of the tests fail with any Python
>> version.
>> 
>> There is now a long haul editing all the print statements into Python 3
>> format in all the tests as well as the rest of the source code. I
>> clearly need to find a way of doing this automatically. Aha 2-to-3 I
>> think is required…
>> 
> 
> I find that
> 
> futurize -1 *.py
> 
> is incredibly helpful here (-2 is the full on port to python 3 but -1 is
> the command to make everything work with 2.7 features). This is from the
> “future” package on PyPI.
> 
> I wouldn’t be surprised if the entire port to 2.7/3.3+ could have been
> done on master using futurize directly (without six or a long-lived
> porting branch).
> 
> —
> Tim Jenness
> 

Early on I really liked future package, but now it installs a ton of stuff 
that causes massive conflicts, and I'm no longer a fan