Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-next RFC 0/4] tools: Python 3 compatibility

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 01:53:01PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 3/6/19 1:49 PM, George Dunlap wrote:
> > On 3/5/19 4:42 PM, Wei Liu wrote:
> >> This series makes tools build with Python 3.
> >>
> >> Compile test only with 2.7 and 3.5 thus far, hence the RFC. This should be 
> >> able
> >> to give people some idea what sort of work is involved.
> >>
> >> You will also need Andrew's "tools/xen-foreign: Update python scripts to be
> >> Py3 compatible".
> > 
> > Tossing this out there: Given that python2 is (theoretically) EOL in
> > less than a year, is it worth maintaining compatibility with python2, or
> > would it be better to just go whole-hog into python3?
> 
> I mean -- looking at some of the discussions about how differently
> certain kinds of things are interpreted between python2 and python3, it
> seems a bit mad to try to write code that works in both: we're just
> asking for trouble.

I think Python is not very consistent even within a major version. New
syntax and constructs get added to point releases. Some of the
discussions re code isn't about the differences between 2 and 3.  There
is at least one about 2.4 vs 2.7.

I am all for moving away from 2.4.

Wei.

> 
>  -George

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