increasing the python requirement (was Re: [rfc] upgrade pqm chroot to lucid)

Aaron Bentley aaron at aaronbentley.com
Tue Jan 4 14:51:20 UTC 2011


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On 11-01-04 05:33 AM, Martin Pool wrote:
> From memory 2.6 has relatively more relevant new features we'd like to
> use than 2.5 does, so there is an incentive to bump our requirement
> all the way to 2.6.

I've found context managers and the 'with' statement, (available via
__future__ in 2.5), are really significant in day-to-day programming.
Managing scopes via try/finally has always been a pain.

But don't let me stop you going to 2.6

Aaron
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