[Piglit] Requiring Python 3.x for Piglit?

[Brian Paul]

On 04/17/2013 11:32 AM, Kenneth Graunke wrote:
> On 04/17/2013 07:37 AM, Brian Paul wrote:
>> On 04/17/2013 03:48 AM, Kenneth Graunke wrote:
>>> Does anyone object to porting to Python 3.x (and dropping 2.x
>>> support)?
>>>
>>> Some useful data points:
>>> - Debian stable has 3.1, testing/unstable have 3.2
>>> - Fedora 18 and Arch Linux have 3.3
>>> - Windows installers for 3.3 are available on python.org
>>> - Mac OS X support for 3.3 is also available on python.org
>>>
>>> - numpy and mako are both available for Python 3 now. numpy is
>>> packaged on Arch and Debian testing/unstable. Not sure how much of a
>>> pain it is to get on Windows/OSX.
>>>
>>> - intel-gpu-tools now requires Python 3.x to build.
>>>
>>> Jon Severinsson did a great job in making a hybrid solution that works
>>> with both Python 2 and 3, but I'm a bit nervous about some of it. For
>>> example, unicode stuff has bitten us in the past, and supporting only
>>> one major language version seems a lot easier to get right. It'd also
>>> be a lot cleaner to just transition to Python 3.x.
>>
>> We have an environment here that uses Python 2.6. I've had to hack a
>> few things to make piglit work there but it's not bad. Going to Python
>> 3.x might be pretty painful, but I'd have to do some research to know
>> for sure, and I don't have time right now.
>>
>> Can we please hold off on this for a while?
>>
>> -Brian
>
> I thought Dylan's recent patches to use argparse required 2.7 and
> dropped support for 2.6...so I'm confused how your system would work.
> Or, is that what you're hacking around?

In that case I was able to simply copy argparse.py into our piglit 
tree and set PYTHONPATH.

-Brian