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when will Python 3 become the ROS standard

asked 2017-11-25 06:18:44 -0600

PeterMilani

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I understand that someone has decided to discontinue support for python 2 by 2020. Are there any plans to move rospy to use the python3 interpreter by default?

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answered 2017-11-25 10:24:25 -0600

clyde
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For ROS 1, it's not clear when Python 3 will be the default. You can read the discussion on Melodic target platforms here: https://github.com/ros-infrastructure...

"ROS 2 supports Python 3 only." https://github.com/ros2/ros2/wiki/Mig...