Python 2.7 status: mass rebuild of python packages requested

[David Malcolm]

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 16:30 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:02 PM, David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hope this is helpful
> > Dave
> 
> 
> Is there any hints on expected gotchas that we can look out for.
> Deprecations or API changes of significant merit?

You can see the upstream notes here:
http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html

Some specific notes on changes that may requires porting are near the
bottom of that page:
http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html#porting-to-python-2-7

I've added that link to a new section on the feature page on our wiki:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python_2.7#Porting
I hope that in the main that porting will be negligible, that a simple
rebuild by the script will be sufficient, and that there won't be any
major "gotchas".  (touches wood)  If you run into something nasty,
please add it to that section on the feature page.


Dave