Fedora ponders the Python 2 end game

Posted Aug 3, 2017 14:04 UTC (Thu) by rossburton (subscriber, #7254)
Parent article: Fedora ponders the Python 2 end game

For anyone wondering what other people are up to, I've just written up my plans for the Yocto Project at https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/NoMorePython2.

Because Python 2 is on the way out, and there's really no point in building multiple versions of Python if we can avoid it, we're trying to remove all use of Python 2 from OpenEmbedded Core sooner rather than later.

Thanks to Arch forcing the issue and installing Python 3 as /usr/bin/python most packages are happy to use either 2 or 3 these days. There's just a few tools we use that need Python 2: Qemu, APR, and bmaptools come to mind.