Archives week 35 of 2022
Aug. 29, 2022 - Sept. 4, 2022
Python Version Support Ideas
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As a general rule, I don't like to just stop supporting Python releases just for the sake of deprecation. I try to be relatively wide in the set of Python's I'll support for my libraries, with my current general rule being 2.7, 3.6+ .
Why those? Well, 2.7 is still on RHEL/Centos for another year ...
Cleaning up the PyOpenGL Demos
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Spent a bit of my second-last-day-of-vacation cleaning up the PyOpenGL Demos so that they run with current Python 3.10, PyOpenGL, numpy and PIL and can be installed as a package rather than only being usable via a git checkout.
There were a few bits of bit-rot, mostly around ctypes no longer allowing you to raise ...