On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 06:55:22PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Jakub Wilk <jwilk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The file is syntactically correct only in Python >= 2.6, so the
> > version check never does anything.
>
> [CC-ing Eric who added that check]
>
> Your commit message doesn't give an example of this, but with e.g.
> python 2.0 you get:
>
> File "git-p4.py", line 469
> yield pattern
> ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> I checked the various other python files that had similar warnings,
> they all work correctly with python 2.0.
The yield syntax was in Python 2.3, so this isn't indicative of the
problem. You'd actually need to test with 2.5 itself in order to know
what that version complains about.
> One workaround to keep this would be to make git-p4.py import some
> library to do all its work, and use some subset of python syntax to
> just load and defer to that library. That works for me when I change
> it like that locally. Alternatively, does Python have something like
> Perl's BEGIN {} blocks where you can execute code right there before
> the file has finished parsing?
TTBOMK, Python doesn't have such functionality.
> Or we could just remove this, just wanted to note the above since I
> dug into it, and the commit message light on details.
As a note, Python 2.6 has been around since at least 2009, so I think
it's fine to drop support for earlier versions at this point. But I
agree an explanation in the commit message of what exactly makes it
syntactically invalid would be beneficial.
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