Let's make a plan for python3.0 in Fedora 10+

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazqueznet at gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 01:14:22 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 11:01 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 10:45 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> 
> >  Probably the most interesting python application is yum, as if it
> > breaks you can't easily update/install to fix anything, and it currently
> > depends on:
> > 
> > pygpgme              - binding
> > python-iniparse
> > rpm-python           - binding
> > urlgrabber
> > yum-metadata-parser  - binding
> > 
> 
> the other question I have is how many of the 'batteries included'
> modules in python will not yet be ported to py3k? I mean if something
> like bzip2 or fnmatch or logging isn't ported yet we will have issues.

The stdlib is about 98% ready. The big things to watch for are the
removed modules, not many of which yum et al are terribly likely to use
(md5 and sha, off the top of my head).

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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