[Xapian-devel] Required Python version?

[James Aylett]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 02:44:15PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:

> > [R]eally we should be testing which version of Python we're compiling
> > against ... pre-2.0 definitely won't work because the internal C API
> > changed, and I suspect we may rely on 2.1 features in some way (__eq__
> > vs. __cmp__ comes to mind).
> 
> Currently the configure test checks for Python 1.5 or newer (because
> SWIG requires at least that).  Should this be changed to 2.0 or 2.1
> or what?

2.0 as a minimum. I'm using __cmp__ / __eq__ tricks to get the
iterators to behave like Python iterators, so not all aspects will
work without 2.1; I'd be happy to require 2.1 though, because it's
been out for a long time, and 2.0 wasn't around for all that long as I
remember.

J

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