[openstack-dev] Debian already using Python 3.5: please gate on that

Brian Curtin brian at python.org
Thu Jun 18 18:17:52 UTC 2015


On Thursday, June 18, 2015, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Thomas Goirand's message of 2015-06-18 15:44:17 +0200:
> > Hi!
> >
> > tl;dr: skip this message, the subject line is enough! :)
> >
> > As per the subject line, we already have Python 3.5 in Debian (AFAICT,
> > from Debian Experimental, in version beta 2). As a consequence, we're
> > already running (unit) tests using Python 3.5. Some have failures: I
> > could see issues in ceilometerclient, keystoneclient, glanceclient and
> > more (yes, I am planning to report these issues, and we already started
> > doing so). As Python 3.4 is still the default interpreter for
> > /usr/bin/python3, that's currently fine, but it soon wont be.
> >
> > All this to say: if you are currently gating on Python 3, please start
> > slowly adding support for 3.5, as we're planning to switch to that for
> > Debian 9 (aka Stretch). I believe Ubuntu will follow (as the Python core
> > packages are imported from Debian).
>
> 3.5 is still in beta. What's the schedule for an official release from
> the python-dev team?


3.4 Final is planed for September 13
 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0478/
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