Full support of Python 3 in GRASS GIS

Title:	Full support of Python 3 in GRASS GIS
Student Name:	Sanjeet Bhatti
Organization:	​OSGeo - Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Mentor Name:	Anna Petrášová and Luca Delucchi
GSoC proposal:	​View proposal
Link to code:	​Code Repository

Abstract

The current GRASS GIS version has partial support for Python 3. This project aims to update core GRASS components for Python 3 and update all the python modules, libraries and components like script package, python/ctypes, pygrass, temporal, wxGUI, etc. At the end of this project, GRASS GIS will be compatible with both the versions of python, i.e Python 2.7 and Python 3 with its GUI having support for wxPython 4.

Timeline

Time Period	Milestone
April 23 - May 14 Community Bonding	Introduction to Community Create Wiki page Set up code repository Discussion with community members and mentors about the design of the project Set up development environment Get familiar with the overall working of GRASS GIS regarding python and its dependencies in the system Read documentation Practice fixing bugs (Work in Progress, see Current Contribution section above)
May 14 - May 20 Week 1	Dealing with Unicode & binary data (encoding and decoding). Setting up the foundation for porting the main libraries and components
May 21 - May 27 Week 2	Porting script package module and its dependencies
May 28 - June 3 Week 3	Porting temporal module and its dependencies
June 4 - June 10 Week 4	Finish pending work for this phase, if any. Preparing and testing the changes for the evaluation