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On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:53 PM, CRPence <crpbottle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11-Jan-2016 12:48 -0700, Buck Calabro wrote:
CALL QP2TERM, python3 --version responds with 'Python 3.4.2', which
is exactly the same as the LPAR without those PTFs so I'm not sure I
really got anything accomplished.

I guess I would not see that as very surprising; I expect the Python code
being delivered remains the same version, but with some fixes to make that
version operate as expected on IBM i. That is, there is a standard version
of Python, and the fixes from IBM i to make that version functional on IBM
i, can be completely separate from the fixes to the Python source that would
have changed the standard version and thus the versioning numbers.

Indeed, not being able to tell what, if anything, got accomplished is
completely and utterly normal. Forget about Python for a moment. The
vast majority of PTFs people apply, just in the course of keeping
current, will not produce any easily discernible effect, other than
breadcrumbs in the IBM PTF tracking machinery. Patches to mature
systems tend to fix corner cases and security holes.

Python is itself pretty mature. There are very few glaring bugs in it
that normal Python users will encounter. Unless you have extremely
detailed knowledge of Python, you probably wouldn't have been able to
notice anything different even if the PTF had somehow installed Python
3.4.4. (If it had installed 3.5.x, that would have brought a bunch of
relatively visible new features.)

John Y.

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