[LLVMdev] Minimum Python Version

[Daniel Dunbar]

Hi Sean,

If there was a concrete need to move to a newer Python version in order to
make lit Python 3 compatible, I would view that as a good reason to move
forward.

I have little experience writing Python 2 & 3 compatible code, so I'd need
to see the patch to make lit Python 3 compatible before I could comment
more.

 - Daniel


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> 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).
>
> ddunbar, how does this weight against your "causing large problems
> with the code" criterion for supporting older versions? As I believe
> that you are the author and maintainer of lit, are you planning on
> fixing this compatibility problem?
>
> -- Sean Silva
>
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Tobias Grosser <tobias at grosser.es>
> wrote:
> >> Why don't you give it a try. This will also help us to understand where
> >> the biggest
> >> problems are and if the necessary changes make supporting python 2.4
> >> hard.
> >
> > I'll see what I can do. Since on that machine I only have python3 and
> > python2.7, I can't easily verify that my changes still operate on the
> > desired 2.4 and 2.5.
> >
> > -- Sean Silva
>
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