Fedora 31 To Start Removing Python2-Only Packages & Other Changes Approved

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora 31 To Start Removing Python2-Only Packages & Other Changes Approved

At Monday's weekly Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) meeting, a number of changes pertaining to Fedora 31 were approved...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-31-Drop-Py2-Packages

[andrebrait]

packages that still depend on Python 2 if it looks like they won't be ported soon to Python 2

I think you meant 3.

[uid313]

Use 2to3 to automatically port your Python 2 scripts to Python 3.
Another good read for Python developers is PEP-8.

[Black_Fox]

Use 2to3 to automatically port your Python 2 scripts to Python 3.

In case the most up-to-date doc is needed instead, use 3 instead of 3.1: https://docs.python.org/3/library/2to3.html

[brrrrttttt]

Use 2to3 to automatically port your Python 2 scripts to Python 3.

lol...

[cen1]

Finally, the days of python confusion are about to be over. Nuke it from orbit.

[uid313]

Finally, the days of python confusion are about to be over. Nuke it from orbit.

Until Python 4 that is... 🤣

[kpedersen]

I'm glad that other languages avoid this mess. For example, no C++98 packages ever need to be removed

[mcloud]

I'm glad that other languages avoid this mess. For example, no C++98 packages ever need to be removed

Until the compiler removes C++98 deprecated features and the code stops compiling altogether, that is

[fuzz]

Until Python 4 that is... 🤣

https://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2014/08/python-4000.html