Re: [pygame] Pygame and Python 3.0 (3000)

[Gregor Lingl <gregor.lingl@xxxxxx>]

Ron Dippold schrieb:
> Hi Gregor,
>
> I'm not officially involved at all (thanks, Phil!) but pygame 1.8.1 
> has already been ported to python 2.6, which
> means it should be an easy port (if there's any more work involved at 
> all) to 3.0 when it's released.
I wouldn't take this for granted, as Python 3.0 will not be compatible 
to 2.6 any more. Things that changed are described here, for instance:

http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html

One particular change that almost certainly will make problems (if not 
with pygame itself at least with some pygame applications) is the change 
of the division operator: 3/2 return a float in Python 3.0. If you need 
an integer you have to use 3//2. That means, that games that you have 
written for Python 2.6 or earlier will not necessarily run under Python 
3.0 and thus will also have to be ported to 3.0 (if one decides to use  
this new version). On the other side the Python 2.x branch will be 
maintained for several years from now and there are also plans to 
release a 2.7 and probably a 2.8 in the future.

So perhaps someone who is 'officially involved' could answer my original 
question

Regards,
Gregor 
> http://pygame.org/download.shtml
>
> Ron
>
> Gregor Lingl wrote:
> > does anybody know if there are plans to port Pygame to Python 3.0, 
> > which is going to be released in the near future (approx. beginning 
> > of December; now there is release candidate 1)