We have an open PR that has some incompatible changes for py2 that resolve utf8 issues.
https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/1274 >From python's own web site: https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3 Python 3.0 was released in 2008. The final 2.x version 2.7 release came out in mid-2010, with a statement of extended support for this end-of-life release. The 2.x branch will see no new major releases after that. 3.x is under active development and has already seen over five years of stable releases, including version 3.3 in 2012, 3.4 in 2014, 3.5 in 2015, and 3.6 in 2016. This means that all recent standard library improvements, for example, are only available by default in Python 3.x. py3 was released 10 years ago. Is py2 still so widely used (i.e. is more than half the installed base using it still) that we need to continue to support it in thrift? I would like to simplify the compatibility matirx in thrift by dropping py2 support. Folks who need py2 can still use thrift 0.11.0 or earlier to make py2 work. We have a similar problem with go, since 1.8 and earlier are not supported by the goland project any more, but we support back to 1.2 right now and want to drop 1.6/1.7 context code. In general, already-released thrift libraries can support older language versions, but I think the project needs to move forward. We're starting to see impossible situations where fixing something for one version of a language breaks an older one, and so far we haven't been accepting those changes. I would like to challenge that behavior. Thoughts? - Jim
