Re: Lilypond-book not working after installing Python 3

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

IIRC I saw a bunch of changes by Jan some time ago to make our scripts
support both Python 2.x and 3.x  - some of them may have inadvertently
be reverted.

I think it is possible to support both with some work, and some loss
of neatness in the code.

In particular, for one of the issues mentioned, I think `foo` has been
replaced by repr(foo) which also works in older pythons.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:16:05PM +0100, Sven Siegmund wrote:
>> > Uninstall python 3, as it can override library paths.
>>
>> But I really need Python 3. It is much more unicode-aware than Python
>> 2.x. Is there any hope that Lilypond-book will be ported to python 3?
>
> Patches appreciated.
>
>> Python 3 has been over a year around, so maybe it's time to adapt the
>> source code of lilypond-book a bit, isn't it?
>
> Patches appreciated.
>
>> It would also be a great opportunity to include an option for
>> alternative TeX-compilers, e.g. xelatex, not just pdflatex.
>
> Patches appreciated.
>
>
> By the way, I estimate that switching all our scripts to python
> 3.x would take 40 hours, with an additional 20 hours required to
> make GUB include python 3.x in the installers.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
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