Re: [PATCH] git-p4: Avoid modules deprecated in Python 2.6.

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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Reilly Grant <reillyeon@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>   
>> The popen2, sha and sets modules are deprecated in Python 2.6 (sha in
>> Python 2.5).  Both popen2 and sha are not actually used in git-p4.
>> Replace usage of sets.Set with the builtin set object.
>>     
>
> Does the code already rely on a feature not found in Python older than 2.4
> before your patch?  Otherwise I would have liked to see the last sentence
> like this:
>
>     Replace usage of sets.Set with the builtin set object, which has
>     been available since Python 2.4.
>
>     This change makes the script unusable with Python older than 2.4,
>     which was released in 2004. Hopefully nobody uses ancient 2.3.
>
> So that I did not have to check myself to get a feel of how safe this
> change is.
>   
Thank you for the advice, this is my first patch.  The existing code
uses the built-in set module in other places so the 2.4 requirement
already exists.  I should have mentioned this in the original description.

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