nose and python 3000

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jason pellerin

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Apr 5, 2009, 2:19:07 PM4/5/09
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I've noticed an uptick in questions about nose and py3k, so I thought
it would be good to beat the drum a little louder about the py3k
branch and nose's future.

Summary: nose supports py3k! There is a branch in subversion that you
can check out today:

svn co http://python-nose.googlecode.com/svn/branches/py3k nose3

It is a bit in need of a merge-up from trunk (and the pycon sprint
work that hasn't landed in trunk yet), but it passes almost all
non-doctest selftests under 2.6 and 3.0, and I've gotten good feedback
from the few people I know have tried it. Please try it if you have a
python3 project!

The future:

0.11 will be the next release of nose, hopefully landing within a
couple of weeks. 0.11 will not support py3k. Nor will the next
release, which will be 1.0. At that point, the 1.0 series will go into
maintenance mode (and I hope acquire a maintainer other than me), and
new development will focus on the 3 series, which will break backwards
compatibility in a number of ways and will support only python 2.6 and
later, including 3.0 and 3.1. I hope to have the first release of
nose3 out very soon after 1.0.

JP

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