Portage and python 2.x

[cwr]

I see that the current x86 32-bit Stage3 files contain python 3.2 and no longer have any python 2.x.
Does this mean that portage is now 3.x compatible (and no longer 2.x compatible)?

Thanks - Will

[jdhore]

[cwr]

Thanks - I didn't know that was even possible.

Will

[Hu]

It is possible since the restrictions imposed by the Python 3 interpreter (e.g. print is no longer a keyword) happen to be valid Python 2 syntax. I suspect this was intentional, to ease the process of converting code to run under Python 3. Although Python 3.x offers new features, any script which avoids using those features can be run by a recent Python 2.x interpreter. At some point, the lure of new language features may become strong enough to justify dropping Python 2 support, but that has not happened yet.