21 Nov
2019
21 Nov
'19
6:25 p.m.
On 2019-11-21 18:13:02 +0100 (+0100), Thierry Carrez wrote: [...]
We do cap those aggressively for a reason: bumping that cap triggers pep8 job failures everywhere as flake8 decides to pay attention to slightly different things, and we lose a lot of time collectively chasing down those syntax glitches everywhere.
Which is why we haven't really bumped those since 2016... But proper support of f-strings might be a good reason to update? [...]
Well, the QA team used to increase the recommendation to the latest version of the various checkers in use at the start of every new development cycle. It's apparently been a few cycles now since anyone remembered to do it (or cared). -- Jeremy Stanley