python3 Meta-port for the Python interpreter 3.x

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Port Added: 2013-08-17 19:11:20

Last Update: 2024-06-18 19:53:34

Commit Hash: ee63b76

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Also Listed In: python

License: not specified in port

WWW:

https://www.python.org/

Description:

Python is an interpreted object-oriented programming language, and is often compared to Tcl, Perl or Scheme. This is a meta port to the Python 3.x interpreter and provides symbolic links to bin/python3, bin/pydoc3, bin/idle3 and so on to allow compatibility with minor version agnostic python scripts. Do not depend on this port.

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pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist

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1. bin/2to3-3
2. bin/idle3
3. bin/pydoc3
4. bin/python3
5. bin/python3-config
6. libdata/pkgconfig/python3-embed.pc
7. libdata/pkgconfig/python3.pc

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Dependency lines:

• python3>0:lang/python3

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PKGNAME: python3

Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.

distinfo:

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):

python3

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FreeBSD:16:latest	3_4	3_4	n/a	-	n/a	n/a	-	-

Dependencies

NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.

Runtime dependencies:

1. python3.11 : lang/python311

This port is required by:

for Build

Deleted ports which required this port:

Expand this list of 38 deleted ports

1. accessibility/py3-atspi^*
2. audio/py3-pylast^*
3. deskutils/alacarte^*
4. devel/py3-asttokens^*
5. devel/py3-dbus^*
6. devel/py3-flake8^*
7. devel/py3-flake8-builtins^*
8. devel/py3-flake8-docstrings^*
9. devel/py3-flake8-import-order^*
10. devel/py3-flake8-polyfill^*
11. devel/py3-flake8-quotes^*
12. devel/py3-gobject3^*
13. devel/py3-hgtools^*
14. devel/py3-jsonschema^*
15. devel/py3-mccabe^*
16. devel/py3-protobuf^*
17. devel/py3-pycodestyle^*
18. devel/py3-pydocstyle^*
19. devel/py3-pyflakes^*
20. devel/py3-pytest-capturelog^*
21. devel/py3-pytest-runner^*
22. devel/py3-pytest-timeout^*
23. devel/py3-rubymarshal^*
24. devel/py3-setproctitle^*
25. devel/py3-voluptuous^*
26. devel/py3-xdg^*
27. dns/bind10^*
28. dns/py-dns3^*
29. graphics/py3-cairo^*
30. multimedia/mplayer2^*
31. print/py3-fonttools^*
32. security/py3-pbkdf2^*
33. security/py3-pyaes^*
34. textproc/py-beautifulsoup4^*
35. textproc/py3-libxml2^*
36. textproc/py3-qrcode^*
37. www/py3-aiohttp^*
38. www/py3-httplib2^*
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for Run

1. lang/python

Deleted ports which required this port:

Expand this list of 37 deleted ports

1. accessibility/py3-atspi^*
2. audio/py3-pylast^*
3. deskutils/alacarte^*
4. devel/py3-asttokens^*
5. devel/py3-dbus^*
6. devel/py3-flake8^*
7. devel/py3-flake8-builtins^*
8. devel/py3-flake8-docstrings^*
9. devel/py3-flake8-import-order^*
10. devel/py3-flake8-polyfill^*
11. devel/py3-flake8-quotes^*
12. devel/py3-gobject3^*
13. devel/py3-hgtools^*
14. devel/py3-jsonschema^*
15. devel/py3-mccabe^*
16. devel/py3-meson^*
17. devel/py3-protobuf^*
18. devel/py3-pycodestyle^*
19. devel/py3-pydocstyle^*
20. devel/py3-pyflakes^*
21. devel/py3-pytest-capturelog^*
22. devel/py3-pytest-runner^*
23. devel/py3-pytest-timeout^*
24. devel/py3-rubymarshal^*
25. devel/py3-setproctitle^*
26. devel/py3-voluptuous^*
27. devel/py3-xdg^*
28. dns/bind10^*
29. dns/py-dns3^*
30. graphics/py3-cairo^*
31. print/py3-fonttools^*
32. security/py3-pbkdf2^*
33. security/py3-pyaes^*
34. textproc/py-beautifulsoup4^*
35. textproc/py3-libxml2^*
36. www/py3-aiohttp^*
37. www/py3-httplib2^*
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Configuration Options:

No options to configure

Options name:

lang_python3

USES:

python:run

FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message

Master Sites:

1. There is no master site for this port.

lang/python3: Add python3-embed.pc

- Remove -f from LN
- Cosmetic change
- Bump PORTREVISION for package change

PR:		257362

all: remove explicit versions in USES=python for "3.x+"

The logic in USES=python will automatically convert this to 3.8+ by
itself.

Adjust two ports that only had Python 3.7 mentioned but build fine
on Python 3.8 too.

finance/quickfix: mark BROKEN with PYTHON

libtool: compile: c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I -I. -I.. -I../.. -I../C++
-DLIBICONV_PLUG -DPYTHON_MAJOR_VERSION=3 -Wno-unused-variable
-Wno-maybe-uninitialized -O2 -pipe -DLIBICONV_PLUG -fstack-protector-strong
-fno-strict-aliasing -DLIBICONV_PLUG -Wall -ansi
-Wno-unused-command-line-argument -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings
-Wno-overloaded-virtual -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-deprecated -std=c++0x
-MT _quickfix_la-QuickfixPython.lo -MD -MP -MF
.deps/_quickfix_la-QuickfixPython.Tpo -c QuickfixPython.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o
.libs/_quickfix_la-QuickfixPython.o
warning: unknown warning option '-Wno-maybe-uninitialized'; did you mean
'-Wno-uninitialized'? [-Wunknown-warning-option]
QuickfixPython.cpp:175:11: fatal error: 'Python.h' file not found
 ^~~~~~~~~~
1 warning and 1 error generated.

Reviewed by:	portmgr, vishwin, yuri
Differential Revision:	<https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40568>

Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles

Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.

This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)

Add WWW entries to port Makefiles

It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.

Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.

There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.

lang/python3: Clean up

- Remove leading definite article from COMMENT
- Update USES=python
- Remove unneeded use of PYTHON_MAJOR_VER because this is for python 3.x
- Merge the symbolic link of 2to3 and python to the .for loop

One more small cleanup, forgotten yesterday.
Reported by:	lwhsu

Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.

Garbage collecte unusable things from lang/python{,2,3} metaports.

Simplify the lang/python{2,3} metaports.

Reviewed by:	antoine

Drop the ipv6 virtual category for l* category as it is not relevant anymore

Add a not to a few meta ports: do not depend on these ports

Add NO_ARCH

Update WWW

Remove PYTHON*_DEFAULT_VERSION.

Remove dead PYTHON_NO_DEPENDS. It has not been needed or supported since
USES=python was added in r364450.

Switch default python3 version from 3.3 to 3.4.
Bump PORTREVISIONs for the affected ports.

Exp-run by:	antoine

- Convert ports of irc/ and lang/ to new USES=python

Approved by:	portmgr (implicit)

Remove support for pkg_install
Merge back bsd.pkgng.mk into bsd.port.mk
Add a note about @stopdaemon not being supported anymore

With hat:	portmgr
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D693

- Fix and remove stale symlinks after the lang/python* cleanup

Reported by:	Scott Allendorf <scott-allendorf@uiowa.edu>

- Do not use absolute source paths for the symlinks to the stagedir

Noticed by:	danfe

- Enable stagedir support

Install python[23].pc files for the lang/python[23] ports.

Discussed with:	koobs@
Approved by:	python@ (wg@)

Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
lang)

- improve the python meta port descriptions

Requested by:	demon@
Reviewed by:	demon@

- Avoid circular dependencies due to the previous bsd.python.mk change

- Move the symlink magic for the default python version into lang/python
 and lang/python2 and lang/python3. This change brings us closer to the goal
 of making Python ports usable with different Python versions at the same
 time.
- Add a new lang/python2 port to handle the symlinks for bin/python2,
 bin/idle2, bin/pydoc2 and so on.
- Add a new lang/python3 port to handle the symlinks for bin/python3,
 bin/idle3, bin/pydoc3 and so on.
- Bump the PORTREVISION on all lang/python* ports.

20 vulnerabilities affecting 360 ports have been reported in the past 14 days

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Last processed:
2026-04-11 08:28:37 UTC