[llvm-dev] [RFC] Python 2 / Python 3 status

Tobias Hieta via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Wed Jan 29 13:11:13 PST 2020


On Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 21:30 Fangrui Song via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> On 2020-01-29, Reid Kleckner via llvm-dev wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:27 AM Serge Guelton via llvm-dev <
> >llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> >
> >> My personal take on this would be to start moving forward. Still
> >> supporting both
> >> version this year, but obsoleting Python 2.7 and requiring, say Python
> 3.6,
> >> starting January 2021 looks like a good compromise.
> >>
> >
> >Sounds good to me. Keeping the window of time during which we support both
> >Python 2 and 3 as small as possible would be nice.
>

+1


> I also recall Reid said `#!/usr/bin/env python` might make Windows
> developers happier but I forget the details.
>

Python on windows has a wrapper that parses this line and selects which
python to use bases on that.

>
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