laspy for Python 3 about laspy HOT 6 CLOSED

The older versions of laspy are still available on PyPi, and of course every change is saved on GitHub. You can install a specific version by using Pip.

With that being said, I would expect performance issues and bugs when using 1.2.5 with Python 3.

Unfortunately, I don't have the time to overhaul laspy for Python 3 compatibility, but will consider pull requests which implement it (so long as they don't break 2.7). It looks like GeospatialPython has made some progress on this front, though they've also made other changes I'm not sure we want to merge.

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Is it because the laspy in the fork I am using is just compatible with python 3.4 and not 3.5?

Yep.

There is effort ongoing for Python 3 compatibility #45 but it is not complete. I don't think it would be so much more effort to push it across the line, but I don't know the details of what exactly is left to do.

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@hobu Thanks for the response. This explains my errors. Anyway, really looking forward to see any improvement in the python 3 compatibility. I'd like to help, but I saw there are issues in the tests and unfortunately I don't even know how to perform "a test"... Again, thanks. Really appreciate the effort in this valuable package!

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Just tried to install the GeospatialPython fork against a Python34 install. Still receiving the same error when building:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 4, in <module>
    import laspy
  File "C:\umberto\laspy\geospatial_fork\laspy-master\laspy\__init__.py", line 3
, in <module>
    import base
ImportError: No module named 'base'

I'm on a Windows 7 machine, and I am trying to build via a cmd shell with admin privilege by:

cd [LASPY-PATH]
python setup.py build

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Also, if I add 'laspy' to pythonpath, I can import laspy, but not all other submodules of it (e.g. import laspy works, but from laspy import file doesn't (No module named 'file'))

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I ended up using the 'python3' branch from the 'davidcaron' fork (this one) and it actually installed correctly against my python 35 installation. Also, I tested my code and it worked. It might be buggy but I will use (test) this version until an official release compatible with python 3 will come out. Thanks for this very useful tool!

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