Moaz Reyad created SINGA-459: -------------------------------- Summary: Remove support for Python 2.7 Key: SINGA-459 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SINGA-459 Project: Singa Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Moaz Reyad
The [support of Python 2 will end soon|https://pythonclock.org/] and some projects already stopped supporting it. (For example,[scikit-learn|https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn#installation] 0.20 was the last version to support Python2.7). If everyone agrees, we can plan to remove the Python 2 support from SINGA starting from the next release. This will help in improving the python code and simplifying the building process. For the code improvement: currently the code uses 'future' library to support both python 2 and 3. This will not be needed if only python 3 code is supported. There is also string encoding code that is complicated by the need to be backward compatible with python 2. For the building process: the build options will contain only python 3 by default. The developers will not confuse python 2 and python 3 options and dependencies. Testing will be easier because only python 3 scenarios will be tested. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)