<div dir="ltr">Perhaps Python 2.4 compatibility should be retained within libtbx though? I guess this is a bootstrap failure you refer to?<div><br></div><div>Cheers</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-- David<br></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 September 2016 at 12:34, David Waterman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dgwaterman@gmail.com" target="_blank">dgwaterman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Richard,<div><br></div><div>According to Nat on 15th October 2012, CCTBX officially stopped supporting Python 2.4. Here's the text of his message:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px">FYI for those of you who didn't get my original email: the minimum</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Python</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">version</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> required for </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">CCTBX</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> is now 2.5, so for anyone</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">contributing to </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">CCTBX</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">, you can now use more advanced syntax such as</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">"with" and "try/except/else/finally" (and decorators, which were</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">already supported in </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">2.4</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">, but we haven't used them so far). Full list</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">of changes in 2.5 here:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.5.html" rel="noreferrer" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">http://docs.<span>python</span>.org/whatsne<wbr>w/2.5.html</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">-Nat</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-- David<br></div></div></font></span><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 September 2016 at 12:22, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.gildea@diamond.ac.uk" target="_blank">richard.gildea@diamond.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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:<br>
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<a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/cctbx/code/25101/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/p/cctb<wbr>x/code/25101/</a><br>
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Could this code be changed to remove the use of the "with" statement?<br>
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