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Boto (AWS Python SDK) goes green, top 19 libraries now support Python 3

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62 pointsandrewstuart13 comments

It is misguiding to say that boto supports Python 3. The boto3 repository (https://github.com/boto/boto3) is experimental and far from feature completion. I am even not sure if it's API compatible with boto. Further, it has been dormant for quite some time.

boto3: https://github.com/boto/boto3/tree/develop/boto3

boto: https://github.com/boto/boto/tree/develop/boto

It don't understand why python3wos changed its status.

It's not the boto3 repository, it's just boto, at https://github.com/boto/boto

Maybe it's gone green because the boto project maintainers have closed this issue:

https://github.com/boto/boto/issues/677 - at the end of the thread Daniel Taylor says 'Python 3 support now works for S3, SQS, Kinesis, and CloudTrail'

What is it that makes a project go green on the wos?

These pull requests seem to indicate that someone has completed work on a whole bunch of other modules to make them Python 3 compatible but the pull requests have not yet been integrated.

https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/2354

https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/2355

https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/2356

https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/2357

https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/2358

https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/2359

https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/2361

https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/2362

https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/2363

https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/2364

https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/2365

So maybe its close but not there yet. Strange that the pythonwos is showing it as green.

I'm using the latest version from github for S3 access with Python 3 and it works fine.

Almost certainly the WOS is looking for PyPI's Python 3 trove classifier

    Programming Language :: Python :: 3

which was added [0] as part of the initial Py3k port discussed in #667.

So what this means is as of July 2,

    import boto

won't blow up on Python 3, even though it's not yet API-compatible with Python 2.

[0]: https://github.com/boto/boto/commit/1ac79d0c984bfd83f26e7c3a...

Mea culpa. Seems Python 3 support is there for some modules but on the way for others. The wos isn't right.

Dang you might want to take this off the front page.

Why would you take it off the front page? At the very least this is useful information about how the WOS works.

Wow. I wonder what low-life downvoted this entirely innocent comment. Now continue with this one, surely you'll manage -60, especially if you have a voting ring.

Quick, it will likely be the only accomplishment you'll achieve today, if not for the rest of your life.

Isn't the new boto though botocore (https://github.com/boto/botocore)? AWS CLI, for example, uses botocore, and it says it's the low-level foundation of boto 3.

They decided to make boto Python 3 compatible and will be using botocore as its underlying framework at some stage in the future.

What might be nice as well is to put a Py3K alternative alongside any red libraries, where applicable.

I'm not sure how much work it'd be but it might be useful to see how much Py2k library functionality can already be achieved in Py3k.

dang - looks like the Python WOS is not correct and boto is not yet green, please remove from front page.

Too little too late.

This is done through a total rewrite of boto to support Python 2/3 [1]. And, as they say, "It's not production ready". So, It might be a little bit early to say that boto support Python 3 since every sub-module will need to be ported to be as usable as boto (to support each AWS service).

This is an outsider opinion on the project, if someone know more about it, don't hesitate to show me wrong.

[1]: see https://github.com/boto/boto3

See my other comment. The work is being done on boto, not boto3.

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