[sword-devel] Python 2 End of Life (Sunset date)

[David Haslam]

Thanks Greg,

My own preference now is adyeths/u2o.py

It’s possible that John Austin of xulsword still tweaks his copy of usfm2osis.py

Peter can respond for what he uses.

And FWIW what I use is within a Cygwin shell.

David

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On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 14:33, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 9:03 AM David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> If like me, you're still using Python 2.7 on your machine for some scripting tasks,
>> and in case you didn't already know, the End of Life for Python 2 is 2020.
>>
>> See https://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/
>>
>> This means you have at least 12 months in which to migrate to Python 3.
>
> Our bindings in the current SVN state support both Python 2 and Python 3. Packages are available in Fedora as python{2,3}-sword. Please be vocal if you use either of them and have bugs with support or building.
>
>> NB. Some of the scripts used by CrossWire team members during module preparation only run under Python 2.7
>>
>> For example, the script usfm2osis.py - one that Osk first developed.
>
> Is this script still supported, or does it now live the life of deprecation?
>
> --Greg
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