Python versions

Jani Partanen jiipee at sotapeli.fi
Mon Mar 1 02:16:19 PST 2010


RHEL5 use python 2.4, I don't think there is any reason to support older.

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> 
> While fixing some issues found with Python 2.7 (in alpha),
> I was annoyed that the tests for Python 2.3 weren't working.
> 
> It's easy enough to introduce some incompatibility, without
> the tests. So I backported enough to make "make test" work.
> 
> Basically I added "set" and "sorted()" since many used those,
> and patched the 2.3 doctest with the missing ELLIPSIS feature.
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/525940
> https://code.launchpad.net/~afb/smart/python23
> 
> --anders
> 
> PS. Most sane systems use Python 2.5 or later, it's just the
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux that is using the ancient versions...
> 
> If you have multiple versions installed (good for testing),
> you can test with for instance : PYTHON=python2.3 make test
> 
> 


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