[Leaplist] python programming in Linux

[Bryan J. Smith]

I know this answer will seem like it's from left-field, but ...

I still write in Python 2.3 or, if if required, 2.4.  These are the versions
that ship with Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 4 (EL4) and 5 (EL5),
respectively.

I've seen few cases where Python 2.6 was absolutely required versus
just sticking with 2.4.  So going to 3.0 is the absolute wrong directly
for what I do.

EL4 might have had its pre-maint period extended a year (because
EL6 has not come out), but EL5 is going to have the same extension
and be considered active until mid next year (2011).  That means
code will still be built for EL5 after that (until EOL in 2014).

So 2.4 is where I've been staying.  In fact, I haven't noted a lot of 3.0
development in Fedora at all.  I'll flirt with moving away from 2.4 when
EL5 is well into maintenance by 2012.

You'll find a great number of virtualization and desktop components
out there still written for 2.6 or lower for the same reason, at least
those related to anything GTK+, GNOME, etc...  In the Qt and KDE
world, things may be different.



----- Original Message ----
From: Dan Cherry <dan.s.cherry at gmail.com>
To: Leap LIST <leaplist at leap-cf.org>
Sent: Wed, January 13, 2010 6:24:19 PM
Subject: [Leaplist] python programming in Linux

I do some light duty programming, and pretty much use python.  I've been using python 2.6 for a pretty long time, and bounced around for gui development.  for the last year, I've used pyqt4 under kubuntu jaunty and karmic, with what I thought were really good results.  One of the updates from the past couple of months started giving me seg faults in programs that had seemed solid. (the updates could have been anything - I don't have a handle on it.)

Since I'm going to be putting some time into debugging these programs, I thought about moving to python 3.x first.

Any python programmers in Leap, with 3.x experience?  Is it worth the move, and was it painful to get from 2.6 to 3.x?  I figure it's better to ask before I upgrade, in case anyone has horror stories.

thanks,
Dan

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