That is correct for cctbx as a whole, but we do (or at least did) support installation using the bootstrap script on systems with Python 2.4. See e.g. https://sourceforge.net/p/cctbx/code/24426 Cheers, Richard Dr Richard Gildea Data Analysis Scientist Tel: +441235 77 8078 Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond House Harwell Science & Innovation Campus Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0DE ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of David Waterman [[email protected]] Sent: 15 September 2016 12:34 To: cctbx mailing list Subject: Re: [cctbxbb] Python 2.4 compatibility 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, mailto:[email protected]> 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 Dr Richard Gildea Data Analysis Scientist Tel: +441235 77 8078tel:%2B441235%2077%208078 Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond House Harwell Science & Innovation Campus Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0DE -- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential, copyright and or privileged material, and are for the use of the intended addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee or an authorised recipient of the addressee please notify us of receipt by returning the e-mail and do not use, copy, retain, distribute or disclose the information in or attached to the e-mail. Any opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the individual and not necessarily of Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond Light Source Ltd. cannot guarantee that this e-mail or any attachments are free from viruses and we cannot accept liability for any damage which you may sustain as a result of software viruses which may be transmitted in or with the message. Diamond Light Source Limited (company no. 4375679). Registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Diamond House, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom _______________________________________________ cctbxbb mailing list [email protected]mailto:[email protected] http://phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/cctbxbb

I am glad to say that the offending code can be replaced with a Python 2.4 compatible version. https://sourceforge.net/p/cctbx/code/25398 BW, Gabor On 2016-09-15 12:38, [email protected] wrote:

That is correct for cctbx as a whole, but we do (or at least did) support installation using the bootstrap script on systems with Python 2.4. See e.g.

https://sourceforge.net/p/cctbx/code/24426

Cheers,

Richard

Dr Richard Gildea Data Analysis Scientist Tel: +441235 77 8078

Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond House Harwell Science & Innovation Campus Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0DE ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of David Waterman [[email protected]] Sent: 15 September 2016 12:34 To: cctbx mailing list Subject: Re: [cctbxbb] Python 2.4 compatibility

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, mailto:[email protected]> 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

Dr Richard Gildea Data Analysis Scientist Tel: +441235 77 8078tel:%2B441235%2077%208078

Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond House Harwell Science & Innovation Campus Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0DE

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