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Python 3.6 Port
This port is highly experimental. Python binary can be started with python3
, but many
functionality is expected to not work.
Why this version is used
Python 2.7 will not be supported in future, see e.g. pythonclock.org.
Python 3 is a good candidate for porting. Until Python 3.6 it is easily possible to disable
multi-threading API via --without-threads
option. This is needed until SerenityOS provides the
pthread APIs.
How to improve
Run the Python test suite via python3 -m test
to see what fails and start working on that.
If functionality in LibC/LibM/Kernel/... is updated, recompile Python with ./package.sh build
.
Known limitations
-
No locale support, default locale encoding set to utf-8
-
Instead of
/dev/urandom
,/dev/random
is being used -
No multi-threading
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time module not working due to missing time related functions in LibC/Kernel