From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Subject: Re: Py-smbus for Python 3 Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:24:30 +0100 Message-ID: <20150119132430.7fcba08e@endymion.delvare> References: <1421658501.2937.2@smtp.inria.fr> <1879153388.1899869.1421658735412.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> <20150119092420.GA998@katana> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150119092420.GA998@katana> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Wolfram Sang Cc: Michael Mercier , linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org Hi all, On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:24:20 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:12:15AM +0100, Michael Mercier wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am working on a project that use the py-smbus module. The problem is > > I am using python 3.x and the py-smbus library is not compatible with > > this version. > > > > I found a lot of hack to do so, like: > > http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=22348 > > http://procrastinative.ninja/2014/07/21/smbus-for-python34-on-raspberry/ > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.i2c/11290 > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-i2c/msg08427.html > > > > I eventually manage to make it work but this code only working with > > python 3. > > > > I like distribute it but I do not know where. Is there someone that can > > merge this upstream properly (with python2 compatibility)? > > > > I can also put it on github to make it available so any interested people could improve it? > > > > What do you think? > > Adding Jean to the list, he is the current maintainer of i2c-tools. Indeed there have been many people doing the same, unfortunately nobody ever posted a patch which would preserve compatibility with python 2. I don't know a thing about python but I can't imagine that this is not possible. Unfortunately, as long as nobody contributes a patch which makes py-smbus work for both python version 2 and version 3, I can't apply it. I don't think it makes sense to break compatibility with one version to make the other one work. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support