NRFUtil Python3 Support 2019?

[JRitzenhoff]

My company has developed an application in Python3. We need to integrate the pc-nrfutil scripts (https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/pc-nrfutil) with our application.

I know that Python3 development is underway (https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/28554/nrfutil-python3-support), but believe that a Python3 codebase has not been released yet. 

I was able to install the “nrfutil” module using pip3 which gives me the impression that the primary holdback is now the pc-ble-driver.py file (https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/pc-nrfutil/issues/158).

Is the current pc-nrfutil version in fact Python3 compatible? If not, are there any work-arounds we can implement until the Python3 compatible version is released.

Thanks in advance

[AndreasF]

Hi.

It really depends on what you want to use nrfutil to.

If you require BLE DFU, it will not work since py3 is not yet supported in pc-ble-driver.py, it will however soon be released (I cannot comment more details about this, read more here).

If you dont require BLE DFU, I think that you should be able to make it work by removing imports which has to do with the pc-ble-driver.py.

I hope this answer is satisfactory.

Best regards,

Andreas

[JRitzenhoff]

Thank you, this is very helpful!

[Eric Smith]

You guys do realize that Python 2 will be COMPLETELY unsupported in only 120 days from now, right? That's the end of the line. Less than three months away.

This has been causing me grief for a while because all of my other client infrastructure has been upgraded to Python 3 for more than 18 months, and it's needlessly difficult to have to make Python 3 code interoperate with a Python 2 only library.