[Python-Dev] New workflow change: Welcome to blurb
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Jun 24 12:27:21 EDT 2017
On 6/24/2017 11:57 AM, Larry Hastings wrote:
> On 06/24/2017 01:53 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> Would you like to make it 3.5-compatible? 3.6 is quite young and not
>> all systems have it (e.g. Ubuntu 16.04, which many people use, has 3.5).
>
> Well, tbh I think that's a bit silly. First of all, it shouldn't be
> installed in your system-wide python3 interpreter. Second, I assumed
> core devs were compiling their own Python interpreters locally in their
> account--in no small part so they can install any packages they want.
> And finally, you're asking me to give up f-strings.
>
> If someone else wants to send me a PR getting it to work on 3.5, I'd
> look at it. I'm guessing it's really just f-strings but I can't say for
> sure what else is a 3.6 dependency.
I believe cherry-picker also requires 3.6, for the same reason.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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