From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 542081396D9 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 01:22:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 831062BC1D6; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 01:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-x231.google.com (mail-yw0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c05::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 29B362BC1B9 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 01:22:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yw0-x231.google.com with SMTP id q126so8711602ywq.10 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2017 18:22:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=F16qnpVvn/GVdtZ2FEYQ6YWZe8/chkS9v5mtyWLGMOU=; b=fchM27keEQhLUqqCS8wo93Cc5gI0JJGnExusOkGqNSQ8zg7cBsA0lLMSC5gRmIRlmo d44PRjBrMjB/TpFM4mLBnxa0sVkKNG9zvKicJlsvkHAjFhtIj8FgiYAeBqqRvK5TLdyj 6um1gHqjwqD/1Q2t+zQ472qAkZQJ3jfFsA8w5QtO9r0O4BA6PV4KO4XNcDpculWqmDz4 ryP+57l3eSbR6o2/aXrZ2FxTXpciZQxdKnJee3+8b3AgDbymUhV0XQjtjy4vIZI60IzT gIRbfML0Us5QO0T1hS2QasO+l14rFBEIrst/bE0Ttv5GcQj3k/O4AqPsBQuHBBGozfvZ muMA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=F16qnpVvn/GVdtZ2FEYQ6YWZe8/chkS9v5mtyWLGMOU=; b=VVqSQ5ZujfzK6H5irQFdzHPZ2Mdz7OToRa06jUcr4yioQsntbEUWqXcjhR+jB6aGnD /9mUUbbmCHIQZ3b8mPTWEwU7uKWqazTwE0eT2kgo1t57o+t7DT09MSR9+zfvzXpdYkhH oNb849WpNnK1OIG0ylMGdYmJZsnnzWHYcYoFcZF/jQZ73R0tHTk3X9D0xYxCS5K1WlMN 4SuG9DS75sTLzRL1kV+ZUqbvM4l80jTq1T3CuFYr5hpewkkU/6QLrQpnZQecwfWpuxvA qPtzzPwxoJtoTKb34/UR2FCLauGbwaFk72uhfhZPPtfUS+G0WFEprTYUSm8km0rsL0Vn dMAQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AMCzsaXLgvwhYn2uWj7yE3HS3TB1dFO0TGMdWJJw2nMRQP+FP5NcmZ7o 5Yd/IVw1/Muy7dhWMf70u4O2fHL1FYjnYzCmjJY= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABhQp+RicS4B4Xmd6YohRAmJdINvbj7qLiOJm49iRV7Fs6ZJssh4mMu918oyX147klAKovNy+cT74d+NIjPzsESRpGU= X-Received: by 10.129.52.194 with SMTP id b185mr3430369ywa.265.1509240151907; Sat, 28 Oct 2017 18:22:31 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.129.153.84 with HTTP; Sat, 28 Oct 2017 18:22:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20171029011743.GL1962@ca.inter.net> References: <20171029011743.GL1962@ca.inter.net> From: R0b0t1 Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 20:22:31 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Python 3.5 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 2245efaa-548e-4dd3-926f-991c7814863d X-Archives-Hash: ef5c61c9245707d91dd57dc9848c4ccf On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Philip Webb 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.