John Snow <js...@redhat.com> writes:

> On 9/21/20 1:43 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> All our supported build platforms have Python 3.6 or newer nowadays,
>> and there are some useful features in Python 3.6 which are not available
>> in 3.5 yet, so let's bump the minimum Python version to 3.6 now.
>> 
>
> Just to add in case anyone wonders: This isn't incrementalism for
> incrementalism's sake, but the type hint annotations added in Python
> 3.6 allow us to statically type the QAPI parser.
>
> We are already using (and enforcing) these annotations in iotests.py,
> and I believe adding this to QAPI will be of high value going forward.

Concur.

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