On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 04:48:38PM +0100, Peter Wu wrote: | Triggered by a build error due to html2text.py, I have recently started | with adding Python 3 support to various Python scripts[1][2]. The change | to html2text.py[1] was tested with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 and 3.4. | | The configure script however checks for Python >= 2.5 which was first | released in 2006 with the last security update in 2011. This version | also lacks support for nice language constructs such as 'with'. | checklicenses.py is already incompatible with this. | | Any objections if this gets bumped to 2.6 or even 2.7? The | dfilter-test.py script already requires 2.7 (or newer).
RHEL 6 (and CentOS 6) ship with python 2.6. python 2.6 has handy language features such as 'with'. I don't know if python 2.7 provides new language features that are strictly necessary. I know there are some new modules in 2.7 that some people prefer (e.g. OrderedDict, unittest, argparse), but IMHO they can be worked around by using the older version :) (RHEL 5 has python 2.4, which as you mention, is already complained about as being too old.) regards, Luke.
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