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early-needle-54791
09/16/2022, 12:09 AMIs there a plan to stop supporting py27 in pex?
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happy-kitchen-89482
09/16/2022, 12:12 AMNope, quite the opposite. @enough-analyst-54434 has done work to support a vendored pip, to retain py27 support, alongside a resolved, current pip, to support the latest pip features on newer interpreters
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early-needle-54791
09/16/2022, 12:13 AMinteresting. Coming from the developer side we definitely lose out on some nice newer stdlib and syntax stuff from python3
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enough-analyst-54434
09/16/2022, 12:13 AMI don't break users TM
Users trump devs
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early-needle-54791
09/16/2022, 12:15 AM👌 good to know the philosophy there
Though releasing a new major version which dropped support for py27 doesn’t seem like it would break existing users
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enough-analyst-54434
09/16/2022, 12:17 AMI had looked up the Red Hat end of support and forget, but I think it's 2025 and so wanted to coincide with that
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Ah, I think that's not true if the tool is half baked. PEX entered a period of half baked after it left Wickman's hands . It's approaching fully baked (~no known bugs).
There was lots of ill thought out stuff added 2013-2018 or so.
Has taken a while to sort back out.
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early-needle-54791
09/16/2022, 12:20 AMmakes sense
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enough-analyst-54434
09/16/2022, 12:22 AMJune 2024: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511
One thing that's interesting to do is look at shard timings for Pex CI.
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early-needle-54791
09/16/2022, 12:23 AMare there distributions of many runs that github ci provides?
or do you spot check individual runs?
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enough-analyst-54434
09/16/2022, 12:26 AMNo, I just spot check and that backs up what I see on my machine (I have the full complement of PyPy and CPython supported versions). Python 2.7 is still fastest.
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early-needle-54791
09/16/2022, 12:27 AMthat would not be my initial expectation given all the perf improvements touted in python3
rewriting the container types and such
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enough-analyst-54434
09/16/2022, 12:27 AMYeah, perf improvements relative to prior Python 3's definitely.
Not against 2 though for Pex / Pip workloads anyways.
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early-needle-54791
09/16/2022, 12:28 AMI guess once you fix too many bugs you start to add overhead
there some local minima there lol
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enough-analyst-54434
09/16/2022, 12:29 AMPython 3 up through 3.7 is pretty atrocious, getting better steadily since then though. 3.11 is now pretty close for Pex.
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early-needle-54791
09/16/2022, 12:30 AMso basically python2.7 is dead long live python2.7. learned something today
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enough-analyst-54434
09/16/2022, 12:31 AMI am not too impressed by the language features and shiny toys. The security fixes have my attention of course, but that's the user's choice.
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early-needle-54791
09/16/2022, 12:32 AMheh yeah I don’t use walrus or anything. pathlib is nice
f-strings. I guess there is some stuff I like
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enough-analyst-54434
09/16/2022, 12:35 AMThat all is nice but I think it's like 1% nice. So noise. If Pex could leverage asyncio or something like that that makes a real difference to users via perf I'd sing a different tune.
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