Is it possible to give a friendly error message at run time if you accidentally 
run with Python 3.x?


> On May 9, 2016, at 12:37 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks
> 
> As we look at the Python client, there is an issue with the supported Python 
> version. There was a significant break in the user-level API between Python 
> 2.x and Python 3. Some of the issues are described here:
> 
> https://docs.python.org/2/glossary.html#term-2to3
> 
> Noah and I have chatted about this, and we feel it may be best to just 
> lock-in on Python 2.x until an overwhelming reason arises for us to 
> transition to Python 3. At that time, we would have to do a backward-break to 
> update.
> 
> The virtualenv content file (pyenv.txt) already reflects this requirement, so 
> folks who use virtual environments are set.
> 
> Make sense?
> Ralph
> 
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