Python bindings - final solution

["Mgr. Martin Pecka" <peckama2@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is a problem with the python bindings for libftdi.

Several sources [1, 2] say that to use python bindings with Python 2, libftdi has to be in version 1.0 <= libftdi <= 1.2, whereas to work with Python 3, it has to be >= 1.3.

That's quite unfortunate. Is there a possibility to resolve this issue so that a single version of libftdi would be usable in both Python 2 and Python 3?

People were reporting [3, 4, 5] even your own examples in repo fail to run in version 1.3+.

So far, I filed an Ubuntu packaging issue [6] to provide both version 1.2 and 1.4, but I think it has a pretty low probability to get resolved...

Thanks you for helping resolve this unfortunate issue.

[1] https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_GPIO/issues/61#issuecomment-363477104
[2] https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_GPIO/issues/50#issuecomment-363479708

[3] http://developer.intra2net.com/git/?p=libftdi;a=blob;f=python/examples/complete.py;h=d949fcaf86203f5b184af59072f9004797084672;hb=HEAD

[4] http://developer.intra2net.com/mailarchive/html/libftdi/2018/msg00081.html

[5] http://developer.intra2net.com/mailarchive/html/libftdi/2018/msg00008.html

[6] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libftdi1/+bug/1815049

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Martin Pecka

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