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["Stephen M. Webb" <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How does this affect the extensive use of Autopilot/Python2 in the desktop
Unity 7 stack?

On Friday, May 2, 2014, Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As you may be aware, we are transitioning autopilot to Python 3 by
default so
> that we can remove Python 2 from the touch images.  The key to this is to
> complete the port of the default install click app tests to Python 3,
which
> will allow us to drop Python 2 dependencies from the default autopilot
> packages.  This blueprint tracks our progress:
>
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/core-1311-python3-roadmap
>
> We're down to just 3 more apps with merge proposals: gallery_app,
camera_app,
> and notes_app.  Once those are done, the autopilot team will be landing
the
> changes necessary to drop Python 2 dependencies.  Python 2 is not allowed
for
> any new test suites - use Python 3 and port your existing Python 2 tests
now.
> It is expected that Python 2 support will disappear in about a week.
>
> Here are a few examples you can refer to as you port your tests.
>
> address-book-app
>
https://code.launchpad.net/~barry/address-book-app/py3autopilot/+merge/210724
>
> notes-app
> https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/notes-app/py32/+merge/210254
>
> You can ping myself (barry), Dimitri (xnox), or come chat with anyone on
> #ubuntu-autopilot if you need some help or a review.
>
> Cheers,
> -Barry
>