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Looks cool, but: "This installation is compatible with Linux/Mac OS X and Python 2.7." Sad face.

by drej 10y ago

peakai_grandma 10y ago
Are you suggesting they add compatibility for Win?
- baq 10y ago
  My guess is Python 3. Not supporting Python 3.5+ in a newly released project is disrespectful at this point.
  - ColanR 10y ago
    The problem could be one of their dependencies only supports 2.7. I know that's been an issue for me in the past.
    - inputcoffee 10y ago
      Possible, but this is the first year that I have more 3 only dependencies than 2 only dependencies. I would be curious what they are.
    - mijoharas 10y ago
      I agree, but the right thing to do is to update the dependency to support python 3.
      - ColanR 10y ago
        In my case it was cmu Sphinx, which is a little too big for a simple update.
        mijoharas 10y ago
        Sorry, I kinda meant "for a large company that is releasing a library" (e.g. deepmind), different if it's a single dev.
    - aw3c2 10y ago
      Looking at the setup.py they only depend on tensorflow and some testing thing which both seem to support Python 3 just fine.
wdroz 10y ago
Python 2.7 only is a no-go for me.
- mark_l_watson 10y ago
  I am not a Python developer, but I do use Python occasionally. Is Python 2.7 requirement really a big deal for mostly using other people's code (adding a bit of your own application layer code)? I use Anaconda and just have different environments for 2.7 and 3.x, TensorFlow or spaCy, or NLTK, etc. Really easy to switch to the environment I need.
  - ganfortran 10y ago
    It is more about ideology. The 3.x is catching up, but still not fast enough as the community wants it to. But 2.7 is here for a reason, and shaming people that used 2.7 to push 3.x adoption, in my opinion is a bad practice.
WeDontNeedH1Bs 10y ago
Yep, we're Python 3 only now. The clear distinction between strings and bytes is more important to us than the latest iteration of Neural Network hype.
tiff_seattle 10y ago
If this is text only, maybe it will work on Bash on Windows?
ganfortran 10y ago
Which is fine. It is DL library, not for string processing.
ylem 10y ago
Another possibility is this: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/cporting.html https://docs.python.org/3/howto/cporting.html If either their library (or a dependency) depends on something which binds to C, it could take some effort to make it python 3 compatible. (FWIW, I use 2 or 3 depending on the OS or libraries that I am dealing with)

Looks cool, but: "This installation is compatible with Linux/Mac OS X and Python 2.7." Sad face.

by drej 10y ago

Looks cool, but: "This installation is compatible with Linux/Mac OS X and Python 2.7." Sad face.

peakai_grandma 10y ago

Are you suggesting they add compatibility for Win?

baq 10y ago
My guess is Python 3. Not supporting Python 3.5+ in a newly released project is disrespectful at this point.
- ColanR 10y ago
  The problem could be one of their dependencies only supports 2.7. I know that's been an issue for me in the past.
  - inputcoffee 10y ago
    Possible, but this is the first year that I have more 3 only dependencies than 2 only dependencies. I would be curious what they are.
  - mijoharas 10y ago
    I agree, but the right thing to do is to update the dependency to support python 3.
    - ColanR 10y ago
      In my case it was cmu Sphinx, which is a little too big for a simple update.
      - mijoharas 10y ago
        Sorry, I kinda meant "for a large company that is releasing a library" (e.g. deepmind), different if it's a single dev.
  - aw3c2 10y ago
    Looking at the setup.py they only depend on tensorflow and some testing thing which both seem to support Python 3 just fine.

wdroz 10y ago

Python 2.7 only is a no-go for me.

mark_l_watson 10y ago
I am not a Python developer, but I do use Python occasionally. Is Python 2.7 requirement really a big deal for mostly using other people's code (adding a bit of your own application layer code)? I use Anaconda and just have different environments for 2.7 and 3.x, TensorFlow or spaCy, or NLTK, etc. Really easy to switch to the environment I need.
- ganfortran 10y ago
  It is more about ideology. The 3.x is catching up, but still not fast enough as the community wants it to. But 2.7 is here for a reason, and shaming people that used 2.7 to push 3.x adoption, in my opinion is a bad practice.

WeDontNeedH1Bs 10y ago

Yep, we're Python 3 only now. The clear distinction between strings and bytes is more important to us than the latest iteration of Neural Network hype.

tiff_seattle 10y ago

If this is text only, maybe it will work on Bash on Windows?

ganfortran 10y ago

Which is fine. It is DL library, not for string processing.

ylem 10y ago

Another possibility is this: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/cporting.html https://docs.python.org/3/howto/cporting.html If either their library (or a dependency) depends on something which binds to C, it could take some effort to make it python 3 compatible. (FWIW, I use 2 or 3 depending on the OS or libraries that I am dealing with)