[Scons-dev] Py3/Py2 port progress and issue

[Tim Jenness]

This is great news.

I’d think that switching py2 with py3 scons within a single build tree is going to be fairly rare and can be documented as part of the 3.0 release.

— 
Tim Jenness

> On Feb 20, 2017, at 16:49, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm making fairly good headway on this but I think I've found something which may be hard to work around.
> 
> When creating the action signature in some cases it will use pickle to serialize the object.
> (Functions, class instances,etc)
> In those cases the pickled contents are different between python 2 and python3.
> This means that any build swapping between 2 and 3 would likely run into extraneous actions (builders) being run. (When in fact nothing has changed)
> 
> Additionally I found one assumption in the code to create signatures from functions which is not correct. (That the first item in list of constants is always the docstring, it is not if there is no docstring).
> 
> Thoughts?
> Clearly the py3/2 version of SCons will be a major version release (3.0).
> 
> 
> -Bill
> 
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