[webkit-dev] Python

[Olmstead, Don]

There are automated tools that will update to Python 3 while keeping compatibility with Python 2.

There is future, http://python-future.org/automatic_conversion.html,  and modernizer, https://python-modernize.readthedocs.io/en/latest 

This came up in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170439 and it seemed like 2/3 compatibility would be the ideal solution.

-----Original Message-----
From: webkit-dev [mailto:webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of Michael Catanzaro
Sent: Monday, August 7, 2017 8:13 AM
To: webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Python

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com> wrote:
>  This has not really been a problem until now because none of Igalia's 
> developers use Arch, and occasional contributions rarely need to use 
> the Python scripts.

I stand corrected: we have one developer who has been using an elaborate local hack [1] to get WebKit's python scripts to work. Wow....

[1]
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/python#Dealing_with_version_problem_in_build_scripts

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