Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v2 00/24] scripts: convert most perl scripts to python

On Fri, 2019-09-13 at 10:12 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 11:09:16AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Fri, 2019-09-13 at 09:59 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:56:45AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > > My hope is that we can finally ditch Python 2 for good. The > > > > https://pythonclock.org/ keeps ticking... > > > > > > My intention was to submit patches to purge Py2 support in > > > December, so that we have it gone for the Jan 15 2020 release > > > which matches the pythonclock timeout nicely. > > > > The reason I brought it up is because I don't think the situation > > is going to change significantly in the next three months, so it > > would probably make sense for these replacement Python scripts to > > be Python 3 only from day one. > > > > On the other hand, you've already gone through the trouble of > > making them Python 2.7 compatible... > > Honestly the only "trouble" I took was adding > > from __future__ import print_function > > everything else I just wrote in the normal way & I got lucky that nothing > I did was py3 specific. Most of these scripts are using very boring python > code, so its not that surprising. Good to know! Still, no need to wait until December before dropping Python 2 support in my opinion: we should either be able to do it right now, or we're going to find ourselves in an interesting position three and a half short months from now... Let's see what Jim has to say about SUSE :)