nxdefiant/libroboint

libroboint is an Open Source version of the fischertechnik ROBO Interface Library for Unix like systems

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Python3 support?

Hi Erik,
sorry for bothering you again, but I think it's rather important...

As you might have noticed, some members of the ftcommunity are working together to create a RPi setup in a way that the Pi runs the community firmware for TXT.

As a part of the project, I would like to add libroboint to both community firmware for TXT and also to the tx-pi setup. This way, the classic interfaces could be used with rpi and TXT.

Since the cfw and especially the TouchUI User interface are based on python3, this would require an update of libroboint to python3.

In a first hack, I copied the files into the python 3.4 dist-packages directory, changed the header of robointerface.py from python to python3 and also changed line 347 to "if cDirection in switch:" since Python3 does no longer support .has_key

This made the example.py supplied work under python3 :-)

Unfortunately I don't have any clue on how to set up the make files to support python3, so in a first step I would kindly ask you if you could have a look into this.

Since the final goal is to create an addon for the cfw Brickly programming environment to support the old interfaces to get a (in comparison to the TXT) cheap controller (~50€) supporting Brickly as an IDE suited for children, maybe you could consider supporting this.

Thank you in advance!