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Excerpts from Clark Boylan's message of 2016-07-01 12:51:52 -0700:
> The infra team is working on taking advantage of the new Ubuntu Xenial
> release including running unittests on python35. The current plan is to
> get https://review.openstack.org/#/c/336272/ merged next Tuesday (July
> 5, 2016). This will add non voting python35 tests restricted to >=
> master/Newton on all projects that had python34 testing.
> 
> The expectation is that in many cases python35 tests will just work if
> python34 testing was also working. If this is the case for your project
> you can propose a change to openstack-infra/project-config to make these
> jobs voting against your project. You should only need to edit
> jenkins/jobs/projects.yaml and zuul/layout.yaml and remove the '-nv'
> portion of the python35 jobs to do this.
> 
> We do however expect that there will be a large group of failed tests
> too. If your project has a specific tox.ini py34 target to restrict
> python3 testing to a specific list of tests you will need to add a tox
> target for py35 that does the same thing as the py34 target. We have
> also seen bug reports against some projects whose tests rely on stable
> error messages from Python itself which isn't always the case across
> version changes so these tests will need to be updated as well.
> 
> Note this change will not add python35 jobs for cases where projects
> have special tox targets. This is restricted just to the default py35
> unittesting.
> 
> As always let us know if you questions,
> Clark
> 

This is good news. Python 3.4 is only supported for security updates at
this point [1], so we'll want to make it a priority to get 3.5 working
soon.

Doug

[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2016-June/011249.html