[pygtk] python 2.6 compatibility

[David Ripton]

On 2008.10.19 14:19:23 -0700, Newell Jensen wrote:
> Does anyone know when and if pygtk will become compatible with the new
> release of python 2.6?
> 
> I haven't looked at the all the source code for pygtk but here are instances
> where it would break:
> 
> http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html#porting-to-python-2-6
> 
> Before taking the time to devel into this I wanted to see if someone already
> knew the answer to this.

For what it's worth, I'm successfully using PyGTK 2.12.1 under Python
2.6, on a Gentoo Linux box.

My program doesn't exercise every single dark corner of PyGTK, so I
can't conclusively claim that there are no compatibility bugs to stomp,
but I've been looking for problems and haven't seen any.

2.6 seems very compatible with 2.5.  The main difference I've seen is
lots of warnings from code that uses newly deprecated modules, in
particular md5 and sha.

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David Ripton    dripton at ripton.net