From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pete Wyckoff Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use Python's "print" as a function, not as a keyword Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:41:31 -0500 Message-ID: <20111227164131.GB29842@padd.com> References: <20111221021930.GA31364@thinkpad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Sebastian Morr , git@vger.kernel.org, srabbelier@gmail.com To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C6var_Arnfj=F6r=F0?= Bjarmason X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 27 17:41:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rfa5q-00048R-VC for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:41:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754194Ab1L0Qle (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:41:34 -0500 Received: from honk.padd.com ([74.3.171.149]:56980 "EHLO honk.padd.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754047Ab1L0Qld (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:41:33 -0500 Received: from tic.padd.com (unknown [69.177.230.108]) by honk.padd.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B839E31BF; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:41:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by tic.padd.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CFB5F102221; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:41:31 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: avarab@gmail.com wrote on Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:48 +0100: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 03:19, Sebastian Morr wrote: > > > But, as nobody seems to have cared before: Is Git designed to be > > compatible only with versions prior 3.0? > > I'm running Debian unstable and it has Python 2.7. Most people are > still using Python 2.x as their default system Python since 3.x breaks > backwards compatibility for common constructs like print. > > Does this only break Python 2.6, or all 2.x versions of Python? > > What's our currently supported Python version for the Python code in > Git? It's 5.8.0 for Perl, do we have any particular aim for a > supported Python version? I test contrib/fast-import/git-p4 on python 2.5 and 2.7. I'm hesitant to convert print() now, without committing to testing on post-3.0 too. The work to support 3.x doesn't buy us much. -- Pete