[oe] Python 2.7.1 support

[Khem Raj]

On 12/27/2010 10:59 AM, Ben Gamari wrote:
>
> I spent a few hours over the last few days forward porting the python 2.6
> recipes to 2.7.1. At this point I can build both python-native and python on
> for my ARM target. I don't have time or access to hardware at the moment so I
> can't test the produce binaries but I figured I'd send this out in the name of
> release early, release often.

Thank you for the intent of contribution

>
> If someone has the time and inclination to test this, I'm sure it would be
> appreciated. I believe the 2.7 series should be API compatible with 2.6, so all
> of the existing extensions should work unmodified. Are there any other barriers
> to merging that I haven't thought of?

python is used quite a bit. So I would be more at peace if it was tested 
on more than one platforms before we sort of use it. But sending out 
them to ml is always good.

>
> Has anyone thought about how we are going to handle python 2/3 coexistence? Or,
> even better, has anyone looked into putting together some recipes?

We are a bit far from python 3 but eventually we have to make it coexist 
with 2.x

>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
>
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