python3 support?

[absudabsu]

I get the following error when trying to import:

Install:

$ sudo pip3 install liblas                                                                                   
Collecting liblas                                                                                                                   
  Downloading libLAS-1.6.0.tar.gz                                                                                                   
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): setuptools in /usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from liblas)              
Building wheels for collected packages: liblas                                                                                      
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for liblas ... done                                                                                  
  Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/cd/c0/41/4b7169517e6257d1489dee6bc98bd01621a2ec56cbc25d9561                          
Successfully built liblas                                                                                                           
Installing collected packages: liblas                                                                                               
Successfully installed liblas-1.6.0                                                                                                 
You are using pip version 8.0.2, however version 8.1.2 is available.                                                                
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command. 

Import error:

$ python3                                                                                                    
Python 3.5.1 (default, Jun 13 2016, 16:14:50)                                                                                       
[GCC 6.1.1 20160510 (Red Hat 6.1.1-2)] on linux                                                                                     
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.                                                              
>>> import liblas                                                                                                                   
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                  
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>                                                                                               
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/liblas/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>                                                 
    from core import get_version                                                                                                    
ImportError: No module named 'core'           

What is the "core" module?

$ sudo pip3 install core                                                                                          
Collecting core                                                                                                                     
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement core (from versions: )                                                    
No matching distribution found for core                                                                                             
You are using pip version 8.0.2, however version 8.1.2 is available.                                                                
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.                 

Any help appreciated. Really don't want to write a parser from scratch...

[mloskot]

Where did libLAS’ Python support go?

[absudabsu]

I see... so alas, no Python3 support in Laspy :(

[mloskot]

libLAS is deprecated.
You should consider switching to PDAL (http://www.pdal.io), it has Python support, including Python 3.

[hobu]

If you want to do Python LAS stuff, laspy is the tool you want to use. It is much more feature-rich than the libLAS bindings, provides a compatible API to the libLAS bindings, and is pure-Python.

There has been a pretty complete effort to update it to support Python 3 in grantbrown/laspy#45 I think the hold up has mostly been testing and verification. Your contributions there might get it over the hump.

[absudabsu]

Thanks for the notes guys, I will take a look.