[Gluster-devel] Python 3 is coming!

Prashanth Pai ppai at redhat.com
Tue Jan 19 06:05:13 UTC 2016


Hi,

Changing our code to make use of Python's "six" module will help maintain code that will run both on Python 2 and Python 3.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six

Regards,
 -Prashanth Pai

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aravinda" <avishwan at redhat.com>
> To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kkeithle at redhat.com>, "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 11:19:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] Python 3 is coming!
> 
> Python 2 and 3 can co exists. If Python 3 used by default, then we may
> have to change the script heading from `#!/usr/bin/python` to
> `#!/usr/bin/env python2`.
> We need to modify the code where python command is used to call python
> script.
> 
> For example, `PYTHON GSYNCD` to `PYTHON2 GSYNCD`
> 
> 
> regards
> Aravinda
> 
> On 01/18/2016 06:44 PM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> > Python 3.5 is approved for Fedora 24[1], which is scheduled to ship in
> > May[2]
> >
> > We have several places in the source where Python 2 is an explicit
> > requirement.
> >
> > Do we want to rethink the hard requirement for Python 2?  I suspect we
> > should.
> >
> > [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/ChangeSet
> >
> > [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/Schedule
> >
> 
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