[LLVMdev] Python version requirement for LLVM

[Eli Bendersky]

AFAIK, 2.5 is minimum for running automated tests with lit. If your script
does not run as part of lit, you are less constrained.

For instans, utils/sort_includes.py uses argparse

Eli


On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Alexander Kornienko <alexfh at google.com>
wrote:

> http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html currently mentions Python 2.5 as
> a minimum required version. I'd like to use argparse
> <https://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html> in a script and be
> able to test this script. This requires Python 2.7. This version has been
> around since 2010, and afaiu, is available on all modern platforms. Is
> there any reason not to change minimum required version of Python to 2.7?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Alexander Kornienko
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