On Apr 12, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Paul Elliott wrote: >On Thursday, April 12, 2012 08:30:41 AM Barry Warsaw wrote: >> Hi Paul, > >> I'm not sure what you mean by "no python3 program to test it". You can and >> should create the Python 3 extension modules. `apt-get install python3` >> should do the trick, right? > >I mean that I have python 2 programs that use this extension module. So I can >check that the python 2 extension "works". But I don't have any python 3 >programs that use the python3 extension module. > >Under these conditions should I create a python 3 extension, without knowing >if it "works"? Does the package itself have a test suite? If so, try enabling that for both Python 2 and 3 (using the hints in that wiki page). If not, then as long as the extension imports, I think it's worth building. You can't get bug reports on broken modules if the module doesn't exist. :) -Barry
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