[CCPPETMR/CCPPETMR_VM] use python3 (#122)

[Kris Thielemans]

Python2 becomes more and more of a problem. We now fail to install spyder, see #121.

Sadly, on Ubuntu 18.04, default python is still python2.7. I guess we can easily tell the SuperBuild to use python3. But what about jupyter? Will it just work when we use

python3 -m pip install jupyter

Possibly easiest would be to do

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3.6 1
sudo update-alternatives  --set python /usr/bin/python3.6

before doing anything python-like at all.

@casperdcl @bathomas what do you think?

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[Kris Thielemans]

A complication might be that the SIRF-exercises notebooks had to include python2 kernel name, even though some of them have python3, e.g.

"metadata": {
  "kernelspec": {
   "display_name": "Python 3",
   "language": "python",
   "name": "python3"
  },

in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CCPPETMR/SIRF-Exercises/master/notebooks/Reg/sirf_registration.ipynb

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[Casper da Costa-Luis]

update-alternatives for a system library is risky; it may break something else. jupyter will "just work" (with a warning about selecting a new kernel in case the name changes)

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[Casper da Costa-Luis]

also I presume ubuntu 20.04LTS will default to py3.

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[Ede1994]

So I tested with a jupyter notebook based on python2 and the following code was issued by the terminal:

[IPKernelApp] ERROR | Failed to create history session in /home/sirfuser/.ipython/profile_default/history.sqlite. History will not be saved.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/core/history.py", line 549, in __init__
    self.new_session()
  File "</usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/decorator.pyc:decorator-gen-22>", line 2, in new_session
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/core/history.py", line 60, in needs_sqlite
    return f(self, *a, **kw)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/core/history.py", line 575, in new_session
    NULL, "") """, (datetime.datetime.now(),))
OperationalError: database is locked

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[Kris Thielemans]

This seems unrelated. Best to try again after a reboot of the VM.

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[Kris Thielemans]

@casperdcl you say

jupyter in python3 wll just work

After python3 -m pip install jupyter, I presume that will override an existing python2 install, and that the new one wlil have python3 as default kernel? (A volunteer for trying this?)

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[Kris Thielemans]

The other thing though is to make sure that CMake picks up python3 in the build. That might need a change in UPDATE.sh etc.

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[Kris Thielemans]

We're using CMake 3.13. We should probably by using FindPython now, which would then default to using python3 apparently.

See CCPPETMR/SIRF-SuperBuild#313

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[Casper da Costa-Luis]

After python3 -m pip install jupyter, I presume that will override an existing python2 install, and that the new one wlil have python3 as default kernel?

Assuming

1. there's also still a py2 jupyter installed
2. The launch command is just jupyter
3. the launch is not within a conda/venv

Then it would depend on the order in PATH whether jupyter py2 or 3 took precedence. Otherwise there would be no conflict.

For our purposes (vm/docker) we can definitely fully control this (incl. e.g. setting a default py2 kernel for py3 jupyter)

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