From: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd•com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail•com>
Cc: Sebastian Morr <sebastian@morr•cc>,
git@vger•kernel.org, srabbelier@gmail•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use Python's "print" as a function, not as a keyword
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:41:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111227164131.GB29842@padd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX7PVyCFfHTJN_QZfyt5wAcr4UAiJSmo54PSi=8pgv3sYA@mail.gmail.com>
avarab@gmail•com wrote on Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:48 +0100:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 03:19, Sebastian Morr <sebastian@morr•cc> wrote:
>
> > But, as nobody seems to have cared before: Is Git designed to be
> > compatible only with versions prior 3.0?
>
> I'm running Debian unstable and it has Python 2.7. Most people are
> still using Python 2.x as their default system Python since 3.x breaks
> backwards compatibility for common constructs like print.
>
> Does this only break Python 2.6, or all 2.x versions of Python?
>
> What's our currently supported Python version for the Python code in
> Git? It's 5.8.0 for Perl, do we have any particular aim for a
> supported Python version?
I test contrib/fast-import/git-p4 on python 2.5 and 2.7. I'm
hesitant to convert print() now, without committing to testing on
post-3.0 too. The work to support 3.x doesn't buy us much.
-- Pete
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-27 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-21 2:19 [PATCH] Use Python's "print" as a function, not as a keyword Sebastian Morr
2011-12-21 2:48 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-12-21 16:12 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-12-27 16:41 ` Pete Wyckoff [this message]
2011-12-21 8:43 ` Frans Klaver
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