Is Python 3 supported

[mschop]

Hi all,

I am irritated because of the inconsistency between the docs and the PIP package. Here (https://pypi.org/project/bots/) it says, that bots is compatible with Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5. But the docs explicitly says in multiple places, that Python >= 3.0 does not work. (Example: https://bots-edi.github.io/bots/installation.html#nix-installation)

Which information is correct?

Best Regards
mschop

[jwaschkau]

Hey,

we are using bots with Python 3.6 with some minor changes without problems. I think that all Python 3 versions are not officially support by bots and you may run into problems with some features.

[djfurman]

@mschop you're very right and I apologize for the frustration in the inconsistencies. My own and several other core maintainers' schedules have the docs and even the code more than slightly out of date.

@jwaschkau is correct that there are some minor issues but we need to do a full update to not only python 3.x but also with all of the Django dependencies.

I'm leaving this issue open until we can correct it.

[djfurman]

3.5 and 3.6 should work with the current version but please open issues for any incompatibilities and we'll get them patched as quickly as we can.

[AustEcon]

I've been trying to get this working for python 3.5 on windows but no luck so far...

First one was
AttributeError: module 'html.parser' has no attribute 'HTMLParseError'
required django 1.8

which leads to:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54516369/cherrypy-attributeerror-module-six-moves-urllib-parse-object-has-no-attribute
• and changed @django.db.transaction.commit_on_success to @django.db.transaction.atomic
  but then come up against django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: relation "django_session" does not exist (but at least the browser is posting something with this error message)

Created a postgres db to match the settings.py and then tried using the bots-updatedb.py script but doesn't work with: "CRITICAL !Bots database is locked!"

Is python 3.5 supposed to be working for me on Windows? I tried 3.6 aswell and 3.7 but no luck...

[jwaschkau]

We have done following changes to get Python 3.6 compatibility for the features we use.

# lib/site-packages/django/utils/html_parser.py
try:
    HTMLParseError = _html_parser.HTMLParseError
except AttributeError:
    # create a dummy class for Python 3.5+ where it's been removed
    class HTMLParseError(Exception):
        pass

# lib/site.packages/cheroot/server.py
import six
from six.moves import queue
from six.moves import urllib
from six.moves import urllib_parse
urllib.parse = urllib_parse

[AustEcon]

Brilliant - thanks for the response.

I was able to get python3.6 working with SQLite after some modifications.
Postgres doesn't work for me for some reason - something about user auth iirc...