Can I use libVLC's Python bindings with Python 3.x?

Question

I want to use libVLC to build a video scheduler for Linux. The PythonBinding wiki for libVLC states that it can be used with Python version greater than 2.5. However, I couldn't find any information explicitly stating that it does or does not work with Python 3.x.

Answer 1

The code you're linking includes a compatibility layer that checks the python version and sets up some variables in order to make the code work in both Python 2 in Python 3:

if sys.version_info[0] > 2:
    str = str
    unicode = str
    bytes = bytes
    basestring = (str, bytes)
    PYTHON3 = True
    ...
else:
    str = str
    unicode = unicode
    bytes = str
    basestring = basestring
    PYTHON3 = False
    ...

This looks like a good hint that Python 2 and 3 are meant to be supported at the same time.

(Note that many libraries use a standard helper library called six to keep the code polyglotic, instead of doing this manually like vlc.py, but I understand the authors of this library wanted to avoid external dependencies.)