Python 3 support

[extesy]

Python 3 is several years old and most of packages now support it (even django!). It would be really nice to support it in scrapy as well.

[redapple]

Scrapy 1.1.0 is on PyPI, with Python 3 support (finally).

What took you so long?

See release notes.

Have fun!

[nyov]

Are we there yet? are we there yet are wethereyetarewethere — :boom: ...eh, WHAT? :sob: finally!

Congrats. Great job there keeping up the backports, @redapple. (Probably made a nice bang there, punching that "close"- button just then, right?) And Thanks, everyone.

[fish-ball]

Congratulations!!!!

[ghost]

@redapple FINALLY! thanks @ all

btw, the "PY3 95%" label is now out of date?

[kmike]

@ABSmiLT no, it means 95% tests are passing in Python 3. There is a couple of features not ported yet (e.g. telnet console), and some tests are skipped. If we'd have PY2 badge it also won't be 100% according to this metric because some tests are also skipped in Python 2 :)

[lothbrek]

So glad to see Python 3 support. Currently writing an automation/web crawling system in Ruby but may switch to Python with the help of Scrapy!

[dangra]

It has been a long road, great work!

[ghost]

@kmike thanks a lot~ :100:

[AverHLV]

But what about Twisted? I can`t run my Scrapy project on python 3.5 cause of Twisted errors.

[rmax]

@AverHLV Twisted can run on python 3 but not on windows because _win32stdio has not been ported yet. See:

• https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Plan/Python3#Details
• https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/8018

[kmike]

Yeah, there is an issue in Scrapy bug tracker about that: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues/1998

[ghost]

oops...am using python 3.5...so i have to continue waiting...loooooool

[ghost]

i wish i can contribute to this project ASAP...still a newbie now...

[dangra]

hey @ABSmiLT, try the hack suggestion in https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues/1998#issuecomment-220849511 and share your experience.

[ghost]

@dangra okay, thanks a lot~