WIP: Upgrade to Python 3

[leikin]

Alright, I started working on this, but then Life Happened (and the attention span of a dog), so I'm just leaving it here for now. Maybe someone picks it up (myself or otherwise), maybe someone tells me I'm wasting my time ;)

Getting Python 2.7 on Linux is getting increasingly annoying, and I doubt it's going to get improve. I wanted to see how much work would have to be done to update MaSzyna to Python 3. Turns out---not much, but the devil is in the details.

For now, I've got the simulator to build with GCC. Haven't tried building on Windows yet, I have to get a VM for that and install Visual Studio. Which I kind of dread, but YGDWYGD. I've left a few TODOs in the comments, too.

I've also tried porting a few of the scripts to Python 3. Thankfully, most of them are stupid simple, so it was mostly a matter of changing the print syntax and replacing sys.maxint with sys.maxsize.

[Hirek193]

I've tried converting python version from 2.7 to 3.13 - finished it but many simulator-side scripts needs rewrite as some pillow functions changed it's behaviour.

Here BR186 screens running on python 3.13:

Basically this idea died as nobody wants to rewrite 130+ scripts which are currently working under python 2.7.

[leikin]

Boring as it may be, I feel like upgrading the scripts is the easiest part. I'd be happy to tackle it, as it won't require too much focus (again, attention span of a puppy ;)). I'll need some guidance in the beginning---I already have cloned the SVN repository, but I had trouble starting the simulator (also it took very long, because I have no idea (yet) how to convert t3d to e3d).

For now, I made a local Git repository on top of my clone of the SVN and started versioning the upgraded Python scripts in that.

[Hirek193]

DM me on discord - I'll provide you with all the necessary information. My username: hirek_exe