Python3.4.2 and chardet-2.3.0 issues with messytables reinstalling older version chardet-2.1.1

[ghost]

I was attempting to use: https://github.com/edcrewe/django-csvimport

Which uses messytables to guesstimate csv/table information.

However messytables is uninstalling chardet2.3.0 and replacing it with an older version (2.1.1), which does not work with python3.4.2

(django_env) bob@bob-NE722:~/django_mysql_test/mysql_connector$ pip3 show chardet

---
Name: chardet
Version: 2.1.1
Location: /home/bob/django_mysql_test/django_env/lib/python3.4/site-packages
Requires: 

Does messytables have a development branch that is being ported to python3?

[rossjones]

don't know about python3, Happy to take a look after the weekend though.

[domoritz]

Looks like pdftables should update its pdfminer version to be python 3 compatible. @rossjones when we make messytables python 3 compatible, let's enable the travis tests for python 3.

[ghost]

@rossjones

Not sure what would need to be changed https://github.com/okfn/messytables/blob/master/setup.py#L44 but == seems a bit restrictive would >= be sufficient? Or would it break stuff?

Please let me know if there is anything that I can test, or do, I am interested in learning the ropes on porting code, although I am not at all sure if this would be the right outlet to start doing that?
Thanks.

[domoritz]

I tried the latest chardet and at least the unittests pass. The problem are other dependencies.

[scraperdragon]

The py23 branch uses much updated versions of many of the dependancies; I think that in the early Py3 era there were an awful lot of libraries which had a major version change to support Py3 which didn't support Py2; however they've since all become Py23 polyglot.

So we can safely update the dependencies.