Switching to Python 3

Andrew Parker andy at linuts.com
Fri Aug 3 08:53:38 UTC 2012


On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 08/03/2012 04:57 PM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> > We always take pride in being close to upstream and having the bleeding
> edge. Python 3 is stable and more and more libraries support it. So I'd
> like to propose an idea to switch to Python 3 for Fedora 19.
>
> I believe Fedora uses Python for more core OS infrastructure than Ubuntu
> does, so it's a bigger migration challenge. Does anaconda run on Python
> 3? Does yum?
>

I don't think there are RPM bindings for python3 yet, although it looks
like it is getting closer:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531543
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