[Info-vax] Python x86-64

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-04-10, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> wrote:
> On Tue, 2024-04-09 at 14:10 +0100, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>> On Tue, 2024-04-09 at 12:49 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> > I wonder how long it will be before someone asks for Python 2.7 on
>> > VMS ? :-)
>> 
>> I really hope not. We should have migrated to 3.x by now, it's been
>> 10 years.
>
> I know what I said but I just got bit in the arse with a software
> package that still needed Python 2.7. I just don't have the time to
> update it to use Python 3.x. <roll eyes>

There is a Python 2 to Python 3 conversion script as part of Python 3,
but it is not perfect. The thing it got wrong for me was when it converted
code that issues a prompt and then waits for input without an intermediate
CRLF.

Simon.

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