Is it possible to have python 3 about vscode-azure-blockchain-ethereum HOT 7 CLOSED

@rustedwizard We are close to having the dependency for python removed!

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Agreed @rustedwizard . To be transparent, the dependency on python v2.x is from a npm package for encryption that we have a dependency with. We are actively working on cleaning up this dependency to remove the need for python all together.

I will update the issue when we have a fix for this.

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So we have been hard at work on this. For native installs, some packages we are dependent on are the sticking point here. Sorry for the extreme lag here but takes more time to untangle the dependency tree. :)

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@caleteeter Any word on this? What is the dependency that's requiring Py2?

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@keyz182 the dependency is deep rooted, so our extension depends on some truffle packages (for instance the hdwallet-provider). Inside this has a dependency on keccak. This package, requires a "build" when installing. This build requires Python. :(

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I see - Truffle has a transitive dependency on https://github.com/ethereumjs/merkle-patricia-tree, which depends on an older version of https://github.com/ethereumjs/ethereumjs-util/, which in turn has a transitive dependency to an old version of Keccak that doesn't use the latest node-gyp (which supports py3).

The Markle-patricia-tree does have up-to-date deps in master, but they're unreleased. So the fix requires a new markle-patricia-tree lib update, and then updates of all the libs in between (one of which seems to be ethereumjs-block which is now archived on github?).

Yeah, that's a mess!

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I am closing this for now, no short term fix here, but something we look to improve in the future. We have to, we can't run on python 2.x FOREVER! :)

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