On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Philip Webb <[email protected]> wrote:
> Python 3.5 has become stable : what are the pro/cons of updating to it ?
> I have in make.conf :
>
> USE_PYTHON="2.7 3.4"
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4"
> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_4"
>
> Is it advisable to replace '3_4' '3.4' with '3_5' '3.5' ?
>
Python 3.5 adds some very novel language features that new projects
have already started to depend on. In fact, some packages (such as
qutebrowser) are soon to require Python 3.6, which provides some
extremely useful extensions to the extremely useful extensions.
If you have nothing that requires it at this moment it is unlikely you
have any need to update, but it is a good practice to track stable.
Cheers,
R0b0t1.
