Any plan to upgrade Python to 3.x?

[WaHaHa]

Hi Softbank,

Is there any plan to support Python 3.x in the near future? Many new libraries can’t be run on Ptyhon 2.7.

Best Regards,

WaHaHa

[vigneshp...@gmail.com]

For me I managed to get it running on python 3.10 in Ubuntu 22.04 by compiling the libraries from source.

First by downloading and compiling boost 1.77 (I had some issues with the version installed by apt-get):

wget https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/1.77.0/source/boost_1_77_0.zip

unzip boost_1_77_0.zip

cd boost_1_77_0

./bootstrap.sh

./b2

export $LD_LIBRARY_PATH= $LD_LIBRARY_PAT: /path/to/boost_1_77_0/stage/lib

Then I downloaded libqi and in CMakeLists.txt, I added the following lines before the boost definitions (change the Boost path to where you will have it):

#### Set Boost Path
set(BOOST_ROOT "/path/to/boost_1_77_0")
set(BOOST_INCLUDEDIR "${BOOST_ROOT}")
set(BOOST_LIBRARYDIR "${BOOST_ROOT}/libs")
set(BOOST_STAGE_PATH "${BOOST_ROOT}/stage/lib")
####

and then compiled it according to the instructions.

Then I downloaded libqi-python, added the same text above for Boost to CMakeLists.txt compiled it (slightly difference from what is given in the README):

mkdir build && cd build

cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/path/to/libqi/install

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/path/to/boost_1_77_0/stage/lib

make

make install DESTDIR=/path/to/libqi-python/install

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/path/to/libqi-python/install/python3.X/site-packages

After this, I was able to use qi in python3.

Hope this helps!

Thanks and Regards,

Vignesh Prasad

[vigneshp...@gmail.com]

I created an additional script that simplifies and cleans up some of the steps above which I tested for Python3 on Ubuntu 22.04 and Boost 1.77: https://gist.github.com/souljaboy764/738b76c5bb6b76a8eb93ba7ae63862c9