TM Wrestling With Python [Dramatized]

I decided to port everything to Python3 before starting the Raspbian image rebuild (so I only have to concentrate on one set of Python libraries). Thankfully, it took next to no time - a sad reflection on the lack of ambition in my Python coding.

sysinfo

Apart from adding brackets to print statements the only change required was to decode the output of subprocess.check_output() calls:

eg_string = subprocess.check_output("<shell commands>", shell=True).decode('utf-8').replace('\"', '')

 Interestingly, I only needed to decode() calls with shell=True.

I also added a signature line to the top of the source (sysinfo.py),

#!/usr/bin/env python3

and changed the systemd service file (sysinfo.service) to use python3.

ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/Python/sysinfo/sysinfo.py

Blinkter

dict_keys() and dict_values() return "views" instead of lists in  Python3, so I had to change the already ugly line:

    pattern_index = PATTERN_NAMES.keys()[PATTERN_NAMES.values().index(request.form['pattern_name'])]

to the shameful:

    pattern_index = list(PATTERN_NAMES.keys())[list(PATTERN_NAMES.values()).index(request.form['pattern_name'])]

Maybe closer to the truth.