Python 2.7 Depecated

[danner26]

Are there any plans on upgrading the project to work with a non-deprecated version of python and its libraries?

[gregneagle]

I have no immediate plans to do so, no. (Lots of stuff on my plate and the current code works for me in a RHEL7.7 VM) I think perhaps @chrisgrande was working on this in a fork?

[chrisgrande]

If you need a py3 version, I have a fork here: https://github.com/chrisgrande/mwa2/tree/master-py3 My testing showed no issues, but I recommend testing against a test repo.

[macvfx]

Do we need to amalgamate both versions? or how do we get started with py3 version? I'm testing on macOS 10.5.4.

[gregneagle]

Work has begun on a version that supports Python 3.9 and Django 4.2 here: https://github.com/munki/mwa2/tree/py3
(Why those versions? I need to run MWA2 on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 server, where Python 3.9 is the default. Django 4.2 is the last release of Django to support Python 3.9 (it supports some later Python versions as well)