[py3porters-devel] Bug#782942: Please provide a python3 module

[Johannes]

On 19.05.2015 18:36, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 06:18:14PM +0200, Johannes wrote:
>>>> As part of an ongoing process to migrate as much as we can to Python 3 to
>>>> ensure we're ready for our glorious Python 3 future, please build a Python 3
>>>> module.
>>>
>>> This is fixed in SVN.
>>
>> amazing, I not find anything about that. Is this in Trunk? I checked the
>> debian 0.22 and 0.33.
>
> svn checkout svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/packages/python-hl7/trunk/
>
> (I used svn+ssh since any DD has commit permissions ...)
>

cool thnx. If there is any help needed let me know.

>>> #!/usr/bin/python3
>>> # EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 'hl7==0.3.2','console_scripts','mllp_send'
>>> __requires__ = 'hl7==0.3.2'
>>> import sys
>> >from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
>>>
>>> if __name__ == '__main__':
>>>      sys.exit(
>>>          load_entry_point('hl7==0.3.2', 'console_scripts', 'mllp_send')()
>>>      )
>>>
>>>
>>> for Python just the #! line points to /usr/bin/python.  This script would
>>> create a conflict between the python-hl7 and python3-hl7 package which is
>>> unneeded.  Do you have some advise what to do in cases like this?
>>>
>>
>> Do i get it right, its all about the hl7?  What about the straight forward
>> way, setting __requires__ iff sys.version > '3'?
>
> The thing is that a script with the same name and same purpose exists in
> both packages.  I might force the user to use python3-hl7 if the script
> should be used but I see no strong reason to keep it away from users who
> explicitly want only python-hl7.  Do you agree or do you think I should
> simply remove it from the python-hl7 package?

Imho i would call it python3-hl7. Would be confusing if this appears in 
the python3 package but not in the python2 version.

bg,
Johannes


>
> Kind regards
>
>      Andreas.
>