Re: Python2 End of Life

2019-05-15 Thread Damien Stanton
+1 Standardizing on Python 3 will make things easier for both MXNet devs as well as users. On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 2:49 PM sandeep krishnamurthy < sandeep.krishn...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 Thanks for bringing this up Zach. > Can we include this intent to deprecate support for Python 2, in the >

Re: Python2 End of Life

2019-05-15 Thread Zach Kimberg
The website I listed earlier (https://python3statement.org/) is backed by a git repository ( https://github.com/python3statement/python3statement.github.io) so that projects can open a PR to add themselves to the list. Beyond that, they also have a very nice timeline that projects can add

Re: Python2 End of Life

2019-05-15 Thread Marco de Abreu
+1 I'd like to point out that one of our dependencies, scikit, already dropped support for python 2. If more dependencies drop support before 1.1.20, we might start running into further issues like we already did. As part of that decision, I'd propose to see what the detailed timelines of our

Re: Python2 End of Life

2019-05-14 Thread Pedro Larroy
+1 Let python2 rest, let's simplify our infrastructure and need to support old Python versions. On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 1:58 PM Jake Lee wrote: > > +1 Recently I upgraded the Numpy version and found out that Pylint had > false alarm on it. The Pylint fix is only available on Python3. So I >

Re: Python2 End of Life

2019-05-13 Thread Jake Lee
+1 Recently I upgraded the Numpy version and found out that Pylint had false alarm on it. The Pylint fix is only available on Python3. So I changed the default python version of 'make pylint' command to python3 (PR haven't been merged). It's time to drop support for Python2. On Mon, May 13, 2019

Re: Python2 End of Life

2019-05-13 Thread Yuan Tang
+1 On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 4:37 PM Junru Shao wrote: > +1 > > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 1:34 PM Aaron Markham > wrote: > > > +1 for the pledge and to start moving things to Python 3. > > I think our installation instructions and tutorials can be updated to > > default to Python3 and we should

Re: Python2 End of Life

2019-05-13 Thread Junru Shao
+1 On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 1:34 PM Aaron Markham wrote: > +1 for the pledge and to start moving things to Python 3. > I think our installation instructions and tutorials can be updated to > default to Python3 and we should update Python2-only tutorials. I know > we have a handful of those, and

Re: Python2 End of Life

2019-05-13 Thread Aaron Markham
+1 for the pledge and to start moving things to Python 3. I think our installation instructions and tutorials can be updated to default to Python3 and we should update Python2-only tutorials. I know we have a handful of those, and when I spot them, I'll create an issue. I can also look at