[cctbxbb] Python 2.4 compatibility

[David Waterman]

Perhaps Python 2.4 compatibility should be retained within libtbx though? I
guess this is a bootstrap failure you refer to?

Cheers

-- David

On 15 September 2016 at 12:34, David Waterman <dgwaterman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> According to Nat on 15th October 2012, CCTBX officially stopped supporting
> Python 2.4. Here's the text of his message:
>
>
> FYI for those of you who didn't get my original email: the minimum
>> Python version required for CCTBX is now 2.5, so for anyone
>> contributing to CCTBX, you can now use more advanced syntax such as
>> "with" and "try/except/else/finally" (and decorators, which were
>> already supported in 2.4, but we haven't used them so far).  Full list
>> of changes in 2.5 here:
>>
>> http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.5.html
>>
>> -Nat
>>
>
> Cheers
>
> -- David
>
> On 15 September 2016 at 12:22, <richard.gildea at diamond.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> This commit uses the "with" statement, which was introduced in Python
>> 2.5, to libtbx/__init__.py, preventing installation of DIALS from sources
>> on systems with Python 2.4:
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/cctbx/code/25101/
>>
>> Could this code be changed to remove the use of the "with" statement?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Richard
>>
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