The second question is probably better asked on boinc_projects. Forwarding to 
there.

Do any projects still use Python 2.5 or earlier with BOINC?

Michael Tughan

On 2010-06-21, at 11:09 PM, Jeremy Cowles wrote:

> I may be willing to take this on, but I have two questions:
> 
> Do you think it's the right time to support Python 3, that is, does anyone
> else care or want support for it?
> 
> and
> 
> Will breaking compatibility with Python 2.5 cause problems for any BOINC
> projects?
> 
> --
> Jeremy
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 3:54 PM, David Anderson <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> OK.  I'm unlikely to do any of this, but anyone else is welcome to.
>> 
>> The python tools (start, make_project, upgrade, update_versions, xadd)
>> haven't changed much in a couple of years,
>> and there are no changes pending right now.
>> 
>> -- David
>> 
>> 
>> On 20-Jun-2010 8:50 PM, Jeremy Cowles wrote:
>> 
>>> For the most part, there are simple changes that can be preformed by an
>>> upgrade utility called 2to3, but beyond this there are some subtle
>>> issues caused by the new string handling mechanisms that must be fixed
>>> manually. Strings and string encoding were the cause most of our
>>> problems with PyMW.
>>> 
>>> 
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