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Based on the result of 2to3.  Luckily, these patches are all compatible with python 2.7.  Tested with "PYTHON=python3 ./configure ... && make && make install".

that is great to hear; it now appears we'll have to stick with python 2.7 for f19, at least.

it seems we're going for a vala port instead ?

(In reply to comment #9)
> it seems we're going for a vala port instead ?

Thats what I understood from bug 688218. Shouldn't this bug being closed?

Sorry I reopened this, but in current master I can still see in the configure.ac:

dnl == check for python ==
AM_PATH_PYTHON(2.4)

and several python files are present in the tree:

$ find -name *.py
./caribou/settings/preferences_window.py
./caribou/settings/setting_types.py
./caribou/settings/settings_manager.py
./caribou/settings/caribou_settings.py
./caribou/settings/__init__.py
./caribou/__init__.py
./caribou/antler/keyboard_view.py
./caribou/antler/__init__.py
./caribou/antler/antler_settings.py
./caribou/antler/main.py
./caribou/antler/window.py
./tools/convert_cldr.py
./tools/fix_gir.py
./tools/make_schema.py

Does that cause any error?  Those python files are classified into:

- only used at build time: tools/fix_gir.py, tools/make_schema.py
- only used for testing purpose: tools/convert_cldr.py
- only used by non-GNOME environment: caribou/*

Given that all those files work with both python 3 and python 2,
and AM_PATH_PYTHON takes the minimum version of the python
interpreter, there shouldn't be a problem.

Javier, what problem were you seeing ?

I think I had problems building this with python3; I've checked again an everything is fine, closing again (sorry for the noise)

*** Bug 758490 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***