On 2 April 2018 at 23:08, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

Would it be too disruptive to run futurize "stage 1" before the 3.9 release?

Would this introduce any dependency outside plain Python 2 stdlib? Sorry, I'm not an expert in these futurize/modernize/six/whatever stuff, I got used to write Py 2/3 compatible code from scratch without these tools.

The source would remain Python-2 only, but would be "modernized" so that the next stage (supporting Python-3) would be less disruptive. The goal here would be to make it easier to port configuration changes from 'maint' to 'master' after the release, under the assumption that we'll want to support Python-3 before a 3.10 release.

Well, while I'm a bit worried about dependencies, I think your goal makes total sense and I would support it. -- Lisandro Dalcin ============ Research Scientist Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering (CEMSE) Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) http://ecrc.kaust.edu.sa/ 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology al-Khawarizmi Bldg (Bldg 1), Office # 0109 Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia http://www.kaust.edu.sa Office Phone: +966 12 808-0459