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Python 3.x Progress Update
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@Webmaster4o It'll technically be similar to how files are shared between the main app and the extension now. All documents already live in an "app group" folder that can be shared between multiple apps (you may have seen that the absolute paths of your documents contain "AppGroup").
So basically, if you have both versions installed, you'll see a "Pythonista 2" folder in Pythonista 3, and a "Pythonista 3" folder in Pythonista 2. That's my current plan anyway.
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I really need to get some more iTunes gift cards. On my list of apps to buy include Textastic both for iPhone and iPad, as well as Codea, and now Pythonista 3 😂
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This is GREAT, I plan to buy the new Pythonista as well!!!! and join the Beta program
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@omz Great news!! I look forward to moving as quickly as possible to Python 3 only. Pythonista was the last thing keeping me on Python 2. I run the Anaconda Python 3.5.1 distro on my Mac and just love it. It will be fun to unify on Python 3 on all platforms. I look forward to the beta program and to buying Pythonista 3 as soon as it is available. Congratulations!!!
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Great news!
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This is great news!
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That's awesome! I'll definitely get that version as well, as I'll just switch to it asap :P
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Great news @omz, can you share a link for beta signup?
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@omz said:
I expect that I'll have the first beta ready within the next week or so, hopefully without some of the limitations I've listed above. I'll post a new beta signup form here when I'm ready.
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Awesome. Now I'm going to have to change
print "something"statements in my scripts for months to come as I run them only to find my lazy ass didn't use
print("something")But seriously I'm glad Pythonista is moving forward as it's probably for the best. Now when will OS X ship with Python 3 out of the box???
Also @ccc any reason in particular you use this Anaconda distribution? Is that what you would recommend for everyone on OS X?
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Awesome. Now I'm going to have to change print "something" statements in my scripts for months to come as I run them only to find my lazy ass didn't use print("something")
There will be some way to automate this.
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There's this thing called
lib2to3, I hear it's part of the Python standard library. Perhaps that might be useful.;)@omz Maybe putting a
lib2to3thing in the action menu would be useful? Like the "Convert Indentation" option, except that it runs2to3on the file. Would probably be good to save the output to a different filename though,lib2to3isn't perfect and doesn't always produce code that can run on Python 3 right away. -
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@omz said
It will be possible to access files in Pythonista 2.x from 3.x though (and vice-versa).
He said in more detail on twitter that there would likely be a folder in the file browser for the 3.x version which simply displayed all of the files from the 2.x version. I suggested on Twitter that a dialog could be displayed for importing files from the 2.x folder, which would contain an option to automatically run the
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@dgelessus said:
@omz Maybe putting a lib2to3 thing in the action menu would be useful? Like the "Convert Indentation" option, except that it runs 2to3 on the file. Would probably be good to save the output to a different filename though, lib2to3 isn't perfect and doesn't always produce code that can run on Python 3 right away.
Yes, I've implemented pretty much exactly that. Right now, it doesn't make a backup, but the changes are undo-able, and it shows a diff before applying them.
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any reason in particular you use this Anaconda distribution?
http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/pkg-docs lists all the superpowers that Anaconda adds to Python for free. 150 pre-tested, pre-configured modules. Just the IPython/Jupyter function alone is super cool but there is soooo much more in Anaconda.
Is that what you would recommend for everyone on OS X?
Mac OS X, Windoze, Linux. Yes!
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Great news!
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@ccc does the
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@Webmaster4o You can use pip with anaconda. I use conda for updating packaged stuff and pip for anything that is not included by default.
pip listshows packages installed by both command. -
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Given that we are going to need to make the transition to Python 3, could I make a few feature requests for the next version of Pythonista 2 to get us started on converting our own scripts?
- Pythonista settings already has a 'Use "true" division' switch but that only applies to the console and not to scripts. Would it be possible to add another switch(s) that would be the equivalent of adding the line:
from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literalsto the top of every script systemwide? See: http://python-future.org - In type ahead, could we remove
printbut keepprint()? - While we are at it, would it be possible to add a shebang line to the Python new file template to ease the migration of our scripts to non-Pythonista platforms? This would make new Python files begin with
#!/usr/bin/env python\n# coding: utf-8\n\nfrom __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals\n\n
- Pythonista settings already has a 'Use "true" division' switch but that only applies to the console and not to scripts. Would it be possible to add another switch(s) that would be the equivalent of adding the line:
