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> Hi,
>
> On 12/04/2014 02:30 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 08:13:42PM +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>>> When I worked at Canonical there was a goal to move both internal and
>>> public tools to Python 3.x version. IIRC started somewhere around 12.04
>>> and today when you look at Ubuntu Touch you will not find Python 2.7
>>> there. Similar with other tools.
>>> Can it be done? Maybe not in a month but who knows - f22 cycle?
>>
>> Take a look at
>> <
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default> for some
>> work in progress.
>>
> Since Marcin specifically mentioned tooling -- is there a separate place
> where we can document the coding issues involved? e.g. best practices
> (should we use python-six as a compatibility layer? etc.)
AFAIK there's not a Fedora specific place for best practises around py3 porting. I
myself consider these resources great:
https://docs.python.org/dev/howto/pyporting.html (upstream docs on porting Python code)
https://docs.python.org/3/howto/cporting.html (upstream docs on porting Python C
extension)
http://python3porting.com/ (a great reference for both C and Python porting, including
tons of examples)
http://www.wefearchange.org/2011/12/lessons-in-porting-to-python-3.html (a blogpost on
how python-dbus was ported, lots of great gotchas there)
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/7/2/the-updated-guide-to-unicode/ (interesting notes on work
with unicode)
https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/IntrospectionPorting (porting from PyGTK to PyGObject
Introspection)
http://overtag.dk/wordpress/2013/01/first-impressions-of-gtk3-migration-i... (same
as above)
From the tools/libraries that can be used:
-
https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/2to3.html (package python3-tools) is a tool that
you run on your code in order to *move* it to Python 3 (e.g. doesn't guarantee
backwards compat)
-
http://python-modernize.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ (package python-modernize) - like
2to3, but tries to maintain backwards compat with Python 2.6+
-
https://pythonhosted.org/six/ (package python{,3}-six) - importable library that helps
write code compatible with both Python 2 and 3
And you can also have a look at my presentation from this year's Flock, it speaks
about basic differences, porting and how people can help with porting:
https://bkabrda.fedorapeople.org/py3-as-default.pdf
Hope this helps!
Thanks, it does. So it's up to each internal tool's maintainers to make
them Python 3 compatible and then generate Python 3 subpackages (like
python3-dnf), right?
Best regards,
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