Hi everyone, I’d like to revisit the Python 2 deprecation issue. Since the last discussion, IPython has gone Python 3-only, and Astropy just announced their 2.0 release as being the last one to support Python 2, with 3.0, scheduled in six months, out in 6 months.
I’ve been obsessively cataloguing all Python 2-related annoyances that have cropped up since our last discussion. (See below for the full list.) As expected, nothing was a show-stopper, but they do add up to something non-trivial. I’d very much like a roadmap along these lines: * 0.14, due before end of the year: last version to support Python 2. * 1.0, due by SciPy next year: Python 3.5+ only (or even 3.6, though I definitely won’t push on this — but f-strings are so nice! =) Thoughts? [*ducks*] =P Juan. —————————— Several rounds of reviewing this because of a difference in how Python 2.7 and 3.x handle warnings: https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/pull/2327 Beautiful linalg syntax ruined by using Python 2.7 https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/pull/2394#discussion_r94191032 Unicode character in __init__.py caused a delay in PR 1357. https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/pull/1357#issuecomment-249601485 Use of "range" causes MemoryError in Python 2: https://travis-ci.org/scikit-image/scikit-image/jobs/188150849#L3345 Merging dictionaries is unnecessarily verbose and ugly in this PR https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/pull/2455/files http://treyhunner.com/2016/02/how-to-merge-dictionaries-in-python/ Pretty terrible linalg in: https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/pull/2482/files#diff-e2663b696b69140e0947e91cb6c61137R533 Bad API choices because we have to either change argument order relative to ndi or run a 2-release deprecation cycle; issue would be avoided if we used Python 3.5 only. https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/pull/2508#discussion_r101049062 conda-forge release 0.13 delayed by 2.7 build error on Windows. https://github.com/conda-forge/scikit-image-feedstock/pull/8#issuecomment-290413922 Python 2.7 lists don’t have a `.copy()` method https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/pull/2584#discussion_r111285939 Whatever this is (six.get_self_method): https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/pull/1522/files#diff-c0f33f5600401be736e79b65164b4c81R775 Concurrent futures not available: https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/pull/2647#discussion_r114763804 ASCII codec can’t encode em-dash 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2014' in position 41: ordinal not in range(128) https://travis-ci.org/jni/scikit-image/jobs/234223563#L3529
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