[openstack-dev] [nova] Port Nova to Python 3

Joshua Harlow harlowja at outlook.com
Fri Apr 24 18:20:03 UTC 2015


Sean Toner wrote:
> If written to use python 3, I hope it will use all the new features of
> python 3.4 moving forward.
>
> For example, argument annotations, coroutines, asyncio, etc.  At my last
> workplace, we tried to make our project python2 and 3 compatible (ie,
> you could run it under 2.7 or 3.3+) but this was the worst of all
> worlds.

Likely the reality of things is different from the desires :)

I know we'd all love to just do the above (or some of us would like to), 
but we also need to think about what shiny new features really make the 
quality of nova any better (IMHO some of the above really don't change 
much for the better...)

Out of curiosity why was your experience 'the worst of all worlds'?

>
> Regards,
> Sean
>
> On Friday, April 24, 2015 04:34:48 AM Victor Stinner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Porting OpenStack applications during the Liberty Cycle was discussed
>> last days in the thread "[oslo] eventlet 0.17.3 is now fully Python 3
>> compatible".
>>
>> I wrote a spec to port Nova to Python 3:
>>
>>     https://review.openstack.org/#/c/176868/
>>
>> I mentioned the 2 other Python 3 specs for Neutron and Heat.
>>
>> You can reply to this email, or comment the review, if you want to
>> discuss Python 3 in Nova, or if you have any question related to
>> Python 3.
>>
>> See also the Python 3 wiki page:
>>
>>     https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Python3
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Victor
>>
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