Re: [Fetchmail-devel] [PATCH 2/2] fetchmailconf.py: make fetchmailconf.py python{2, 3}-compliant

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 08.06.2016 um 21:59 schrieb Samuel Martin:
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> wrote:
>> Am 08.06.2016 um 21:36 schrieb Samuel Martin:
>>> This change does:
>>> - use repr(...) instead of `...` (see [1]);
>>> - fix print call;
>>> - fix octal numbers.
>>>
>>> [1] https://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/whatsnew/3.0.html#removed-syntax
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.m...@gm...>
>>
>> Hi Samuel,
>>
>> thanks for the submission.
>>
>> Out of curiosity and due to the "from __future__ import
>> print_function()", what is the minimum Python 2.x version that this code
>> will be compatible with?  Anything older than 2.7?
> According to [1], print_function should be available since python-2.6.
> To be honest, I did check with python-2.7, but not with python-2.6
> (long gone on my machine ;-])

Just checked, Python 2.6 is no longer supported, so for legacy_64 that
change should be acceptable because it paves the way this code can run
for a while longer.  I've done away with compatibility with older
OpenSSL anyways and need TLSv1.2 capable implementations, so why stop
there...