Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit] python: Drop support for Python 2.
On 9/11/19 2:42 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Starting with nbdkit 1.16, Python >= 3.3 will be required.
Python 2 reaches end of life on 2020-01-01:
https://python3statement.org/
https://pythonclock.org/
Debian oldoldstable and RHEL 7 have Python 3.4 and 3.6 respectively,
so it seems pointless to try to support Python < 3.3 which lacked
support for PyUnicode_AsUTF8.
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README | 13 +++++++------
configure.ac | 36 ++++++++++++++----------------------
plugins/python/python.c | 31 +------------------------------
3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
Progress!
Reminds me that I should revisit the patches I originally wrote around
Apr 2018 to bump the python plugin to v2 API (but at the time, I had not
tested it on python 3, because I was still on a machine using python 2).
Those patches may be easier to revive now that my main dev machine is
on a newer Fedora version where python3 is now default, and where I
don't have to worry about testing the patches for python2 support.
ACK.
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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226
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