[mindprince]

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.

[andrewstuart]

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.

[benesch]

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...

[andrewstuart]

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.

[sfk]

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

[sfk]

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.