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

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 11:31:34AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> 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 :)

I don't see a need to rush into it right now. Synchronizing with end of
life of python upstream, makes sense as a time point and matches what
QEMU will doo too, with its first release of 2020 dropping py2.

Regards,
Daniel
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