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Update python3 module porting doc with new location of pycompat

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Toshio Kuratomi 2016-05-18 10:51:56 -07:00
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@ -75,7 +75,13 @@ come up with one. I see three possibilities:
will include the version of Python that is required.
Methods 2 and 3 will both require that we modify modules or otherwise add this
additional information somewhere.
additional information somewhere. 2 needs only a little code changes in
executor/module_common.py to parse. 3 will require a lot of work. This is
probably not worthwhile if this is the only change but could be worthwhile if
there's other things as well. 1 requires that we port all modules to work
with python3 syntax but only the code path to get to the library import being
attempted and then a fail_json() being called because the libraries are
unavailable needs to actually work.
Tips, tricks, and idioms to adopt
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@ -95,7 +101,7 @@ exception catching syntax::
For modules which also run on Python-2.4, we have to use an uglier
construction to make this work under both Python-2.4 and Python-3::
from ansible.module_utils.pycompat import get_exception
from ansible.module_utils.pycompat24 import get_exception
[...]
try: