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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Require python3 >= 3.5


From: Kevin Wolf
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Require python3 >= 3.5
Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 11:36:04 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01)

Am 09.05.2019 um 11:24 hat Kevin Wolf geschrieben:
> Am 09.05.2019 um 07:45 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
> > Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> writes:
> > > diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
> > > index 66448d99d6..0f6986b3f1 100644
> > > --- a/.travis.yml
> > > +++ b/.travis.yml
> > > @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ matrix:
> > >          - CONFIG="--target-list=x86_64-softmmu"
> > >        language: python
> > >        python:
> > > -        - "3.4"
> > > +        - "3.5"
> > >  
> > >  
> > >      - env:
> > 
> > Easily missed, good work.
> > 
> > My grep for similar references to Python versions we don't support found
> > a few 2.x, x < 7.  Not this patch's problem, of course, but let me show
> > them anyway:
> 
> I'm sure that we have a few more instances of Python 2 compatibility
> code in qemu-iotests that can be removed after this is merged. These are
> what I could find quickly, but there are probably more:
> 
>     242:        # Read one byte in a way compatible with Python 2
>     iotests.py:        # Python < 3.4 needs to know not to add whitespace 
> when pretty-printing:
> 
>     149:from __future__ import print_function
>     165:from __future__ import print_function
>     iotests.py:from __future__ import print_function
>     nbd-fault-injector.py:from __future__ import print_function
>     qcow2.py:from __future__ import print_function
>     qed.py:from __future__ import print_function
> 
>     044:if sys.version_info.major == 2:
>     163:if sys.version_info.major == 2:
>     iotests.py:    if sys.version_info.major >= 3:
>     iotests.py:        if sys.version_info.major >= 3:
>     nbd-fault-injector.py:if sys.version_info.major >= 3:
> 
> I'm planning to take care of the qemu-iotests ones.
> 
> Also, with Python 3.5 as the new minimum, I think I'd like to add type
> hints to iotests.py and possibly the qemu package (for QEMUQtestMachine
> and friends). The syntax isn't as nice as if we could go straight to
> 3.6, but still, finally some type checking instead of running into
> stupid runtime bugs!

Ah, sorry, I was getting too excited there. We only deprecate 2.x now
(and not even in this patch), but don't remove it yet. So I guess this
will have to wait until next year.

Kevin



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