Moaz Reyad created SINGA-459:
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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.
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