Ditch Python 2.7, use Python 3.

[gpshead]

The title says it all.

[andychu]

I'm going to link this from the main FAQ since I noticed a few people on Twitter mentioned this:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/03/04.html#faq

(The rest of the post is worth a read too. Also, I'm aware of upcoming utf-8, which I posted on reddit [1])

Long story short, Python is an implementation detail and something the user will never see. I might reuse some parts of the Python interpreter for "OVM", or it might also be closer to starting from scratch. This is basically the #1 task right now, since the shell part is close to feature-complete.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8gjl3x/python_37_utf8_mode/

[andychu]

OK I updated the main FAQ:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html#toc_11

[andychu]

FAQ updated again http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/03/04.html#faq