increasing the python requirement

[Gordon Tyler]

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On 1/4/2011 7:24 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 06:53:50PM -0500, Gordon Tyler wrote:
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>> On 1/4/2011 6:44 PM, Martin Pool wrote:
>>> Any of these seem like a high price to pay if the benefit is just
>>> getting to use some nicer python2.5/2.6 source constructs.
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>> There's also improvements/bugfixes in newer python runtimes/VMs to be
>> considered.
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> If I'm understanding what you're saying, most improvements to the VMs don't
> affect the code you write.  Example:
> 
> python-2.5+ is more efficient with garbage collecting that python-2.4.  But
> you don't have to change your code to take advantage of python-2.5's
> improvements -- you just have to run it on python-2.5 instead of python-2.4.

True. I was forgetting that you could just run code written for
python-2.4 under python-2.6 and gain the benefits of the new runtime.

Ciao,
Gordon
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