= Packages requiring python =

It's time to upgrade the python distributed with o4w to the current stable upstream release in the 2.x series, namely 2.7 (ticket #219). To that end here is a list of packages which rely on python, and their current status with regard to being py2.7 ready. 

Please update the chart as needed.

||'''Package''' || '''2.7 ready''' || '''upgrade lead''' ||
||apt || yes || MattWilkie ||
||~~gdal16-autotest~~ || obsolete ||  ||
||~~gdal16-python~~ || obsolete ||  ||
||~~gdal17-python~~ || obsolete ||  ||
||gdal-autotest || ? ||  you?  ||
||gdal-dev || ? ||  you?  ||
||gdal-python || ? ||  you?  ||
||grass || yes, but there is no official !NumPy? for Python 2.7 ||  MartinLanda ||
||grass-devel || ? ||  [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Landa Martin Landa] ||
||grass-devel-mingw || ? || [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Landa Martin Landa]  ||
||grass-devel-vc || ? || [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Landa Martin Landa] ||
||liblas-python || ? ||  you?  ||
||mapfish_framework || ? ||  you?  ||
||mapnik || ? ||  you?  ||
||mapscript-dev-python || ? ||  you?  ||
||mapscript-python || ? ||  you?  ||
||matplotlib || yes, but there is no official !NumPy for Python 2.7 ||  AlexBruy  ||
||natgrid || ? ||  you?  ||
||psycopg2 || ? ||  you?  ||
||pyopengl || ? ||  you?  ||
||pyparsing || ? ||  you?  ||
||pyqt4 || ? ||  you?  ||
||pyqwt5-qt4 || ? ||  you?  ||
||pyspatialite || ? ||  you?  ||
||python || ? ||  you?  ||
||python-geopy || ? ||  you?  ||
||python-numpy || ? ||  you?  ||
||~~python-qgis~~ || obsolete || ||
||python-rpy || ? ||  you?  ||
||python-rpy2 || ? ||  you?  ||
||python-shapely || ? ||  you?  ||
||python-simplejson || ? ||  you?  ||
||python-win32 || ? ||  you?  ||
||python-win32-demos || ? ||  you?  ||
||qgis || ? ||  you?  ||
||qgis1.1 || ? ||  you?  ||
||qgis-dev || ? ||  you?  ||
||qgis-devel || ? ||  you?  ||
||qgis-full || ? ||  you?  ||
||qgis-grass-plugin || ? ||  you?  ||
||qgis-unstable || ? ||  you?  ||
||sip || ? ||  you?  ||
||wxpython || ? ||  you?  ||

== Package notes ==

'''natgrid:''' might be ready with simple repackaging (change name of folder). Drop 'natgrid' folder from package archive into `c:\python27\...\site-packages` and it passes simple `import natgrid` test. Dunno enough about it's functions to test further.