[LLVMdev] Minimum Python Version

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue Dec 4 09:29:02 PST 2012


On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 12:15:20PM -0500, Sean Silva wrote:
> So, I just tried, and basically it's difficult to make progress due to
> the print statements (since they induce an immediate syntax error).
> Since 2.4 doesn't support `from __future__ import print_function`, the
> only alternative I guess is shimming in a print function. This is a
> maintenance effort that I don't want to do right now (and, TBQH, I
> feel that the proper maintainer should be responsible for).

I don't see any real point in adding pain for the sake of Python 3
support. It is essentially a different language.

Joerg



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