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From: R0b0t1 <r030t1@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Python 3.5
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 20:22:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAD4mYhgSnghSvfk6W6eFqrD8sgXVtb5sH+_Sv3GrXEdYE5_nw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171029011743.GL1962@ca.inter.net>

On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> Python 3.5 has become stable : what are the pro/cons of updating to it ?
> I have in  make.conf :
>
>   USE_PYTHON="2.7 3.4"
>   PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4"
>   PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_4"
>
> Is it advisable to replace '3_4' '3.4' with '3_5' '3.5' ?
>

Python 3.5 adds some very novel language features that new projects
have already started to depend on. In fact, some packages (such as
qutebrowser) are soon to require Python 3.6, which provides some
extremely useful extensions to the extremely useful extensions.

If you have nothing that requires it at this moment it is unlikely you
have any need to update, but it is a good practice to track stable.

Cheers,
     R0b0t1.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-29  1:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-29  1:17 [gentoo-user] Python 3.5 Philip Webb
2017-10-29  1:22 ` R0b0t1 [this message]
2017-10-29  8:24 ` Adam Carter
2017-10-29  8:31   ` Adam Carter
2017-10-29  9:11     ` Peter Humphrey
2017-10-29 11:15       ` Alan McKinnon
2017-10-29 16:32         ` R0b0t1

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