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by kelvin0 3629 days ago
"... better support for Python 3". Why does VB need to better support a specific executable, namely python 3? Anyone have more technical details on this?
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VirtualBox offers a Python API (among others): http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch11.html.
OK, Python for using their VM's API. Yes, that rings a bell. However, from the notes it seemed like something they modified in the VM to better support python with the guest OS ... did not make sense until. Thanks!
VirtualBox supports scripting using python; for that, it provides a python module. Just like any other python library, it needs to specifically support py3 syntax, or errors may happen.
After searching a bit, there seems to be a Python API for controlling Virtual Box. Perhaps that is what is meant here.