add suport for python3

[raonyguimaraes]

Here is my working branch

[dtenenba]

It would be great if this could be merged. Python 3 support is important; python 3 was released 8 years ago and is considered "the present and future" of the language. Teams that use python 3 are having difficulty because the BaseSpace python SDK does not support it yet. Thanks for the PR @raonyguimaraes .

[psaffrey-illumina]

Sorry this has languished for a while. Are you able to run the unit tests to ensure there are no regressions here? There should be instructions in the test/unit_tests.py directory.

Thank you very much for taking the time to make this PR.

[dtenenba]

It looks like this PR is a non-backwards compatible change. Is that the intention, to drop python 2.7 support?

If not, maybe another approach would be to use the six module to produce code that will run under both python 2 and 3.

I may look into producing a PR like this by using the sixer module, but first I need to figure out how to run unit tests (see #22). It would be great if we could use Travis or similar to run unit tests under python 2 and 3 with every push.

[alaindomissy]

Master branch is Python 2.6 only
Illumina, seriously ?

[dtenenba]

Looks like my PR was merged into the develop branch. Hope it can be merged into master.

[psaffrey-illumina]

Yes, master is way out of date. The develop branch is better but I'm afraid this SDK is not really supported anymore - sorry about this.

[raonyguimaraes]

Is there anything we can do?

[psaffrey-illumina]

This is a great offer, thanks, and I'm just trying to resolve some things at our end before deciding what to do next.

[bgruening]

@psaffrey-illumina is there any news here? It's 2022 - what is the plan for Illumina Community support for BaseSpace?