Here's a small patch to make the configure script compatible with Python
3. The wrapper itself (swig/python/comedi_python_wrap.c) will have to be
generated with SWIG >= 2.0.0 for Python 3 compatibility.
[AC_REQUIRE([AM_PATH_PYTHON])
AC_MSG_CHECKING(for headers required to compile python extensions)
dnl deduce PYTHON_INCLUDES
-py_prefix=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; print sys.prefix"`
-py_exec_prefix=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; print sys.exec_prefix"`
+py_prefix=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; print(sys.prefix)"`
+py_exec_prefix=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; print(sys.exec_prefix)"`
PYTHON_INCLUDES="-I${py_prefix}/include/python${PYTHON_VERSION}"
if test "$py_prefix" != "$py_exec_prefix"; then
PYTHON_INCLUDES="$PYTHON_INCLUDES -I${py_exec_prefix}/include/python${PYTHON_VERSION}"