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Valentyn Tymofieiev commented on BEAM-8152:
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To further get a finer grain control of the Python version, if we come back to
this, I would suggest to try to go with pyenv:
1. install pyenv, make sure it pyenv is avalialbe and necessary $PATH
variables are updated
2. Install necessary desired python interpreters, such as 3.7.0, 3.8.0, 3.9.0,
3.10.0...
3. make them globally availabe via `pyenv global 3.7.0, 3.8.0, 3.9.0, 3.10.0`
4. Then, create virtual environments within jenkins' workspace folder via:
python3.x -m venv ...
It would be good to check that this works well with tox.
> Provide a way to better control minor+patch versions of Python 3.x
> interpreters used to run Beam tests locally and on Jenkins.
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>
> Key: BEAM-8152
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-8152
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: sdk-py-core, testing
> Reporter: Valentyn Tymofieiev
> Priority: P3
>
> Currently, Beam Python test infrastructure does not provide fine-grained way
> to control Python interpreter version. The major+minor version are typically
> selected by virtual environment, and the patch version of interpreter is
> defined by the version of python package available on machine that is running
> the tests.
> For example, Jenkins ubuntu-based machines, use Python 3.5.2 for python 3.5
> test suites, while debian-based SDK harness containers for Python 3.5 come
> with Python 3.5.6, and the python3.5 package available on my dev machine is
> Python 3.5.4.
> Throughout development of Python 3.5.x, Cpython implementation details that
> have changed in and these changes affect certain codepaths in Beam, such as
> type inference.
>
> When we encounter such issues, it is difficult for Beam developers to test
> their changes against a particular patch version of Python interpreter both
> remotely and locally. Opening this issue to make it simpler.
> cc: [~markflyhigh] [~yifanzou] [~udim] [~altay] who may have opinions and
> ideas about how to make this simpler.
> Note that there are separate questions:
> 1) which patch versions of Python we should test against on Jenkins
> 2) which patch versions of Python Beam should claim to support.
> Regardless of the answers to those questions, we may want to make it easier
> for an engineer to run a test suite against a particular patch version of
> Python, and/or make it easier to switch which patch version is used by
> Jenkins.
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