Subject: Re: [MTT users] Python choice
From: Howard Pritchard (hppritcha_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-12 08:06:09
Hi Folks,
I've been asking around. Its been suggested the route described in this
URL can be taken,
http://python-future.org/imports.html
2016-05-09 10:47 GMT-06:00 Ralph Castain <rhc_at_[hidden]>:
> Good question - I'm not sure we can. What happens right now is you get
> syntax errors during the compile. I'll have to play and see if we can
> generate an error message before we hit that point.
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <
> jsquyres_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to give a friendly error message at run time if you
>> accidentally run with Python 3.x?
>>
>>
>> > On May 9, 2016, at 12:37 PM, Ralph Castain <rhc_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi folks
>> >
>> > As we look at the Python client, there is an issue with the supported
>> Python version. There was a significant break in the user-level API between
>> Python 2.x and Python 3. Some of the issues are described here:
>> >
>> > https://docs.python.org/2/glossary.html#term-2to3
>> >
>> > Noah and I have chatted about this, and we feel it may be best to just
>> lock-in on Python 2.x until an overwhelming reason arises for us to
>> transition to Python 3. At that time, we would have to do a backward-break
>> to update.
>> >
>> > The virtualenv content file (pyenv.txt) already reflects this
>> requirement, so folks who use virtual environments are set.
>> >
>> > Make sense?
>> > Ralph
>> >
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