On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 12:02:39PM -0300, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > Hi Eduardo, > > On 07/18/2018 11:53 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 08:40:15PM -0300, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > > [...] > >> - import StringIO > >> + try: > >> + from StringIO import StringIO > >> + except ImportError: > >> + from io import StringIO > > > > Why do we need this? Python 2.7 has io.StringIO. > > Python 2 works fine, the problem is the Fedora Docker image uses Python > 3 and the block tests started to fail...
My question is: why use StringIO.StringIO on Python 2 and io.StringIO on Python 3, if io.StringIO works on both Python versions? -- Eduardo