[openstack-dev] Python 2.6 being dropped in K? What does that entail?

Davanum Srinivas davanum at gmail.com
Fri Jul 11 13:52:05 UTC 2014


Matt,

fyi notes from summit are here -
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/juno-cross-project-future-of-python

-- dims

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Matt Riedemann
<mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> I'm hearing that python 2.6 will no longer be support in the K release but
> not sure if there is an official statement about that somewhere (wiki?).
>
> I realize this means turning off the 2.6 unit test jobs, but what other
> runtime things are going to be explicitly removed, or if not removed just
> not blocked which are not compatible with 2.6?
>
> Sounds like dict comprehension for one, but a lot of other stuff I thought
> we were moving to six anyway for supporting python 3?
>
> I'm not as concerned about unit tests with 2.6 since I think a lot of
> development happens against 2.7, but thinking more for distro support like
> RHEL 6.5 vs RHEL 7, which would mean upgrading to RHEL 7 if you want K.
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt Riedemann
>
>
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