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Prepare for python 3.10 changing its nodot version

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start by inspecting fabscript at the linked line and search for other places that concatenate Python major-minor versions. Compare those uses with Python's sysconfig.get_config_var('py_version_nodot') behavior for Python 3.10. Done means the affected version handling is compatible with the changed convention, with any relevant checks passing.

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Description

As long as I am lurking in your repo bothering you about PyPy, I would like to mention that python may change the "nodot" convention for 3.10 to become 3_10 rather than 310. This might affect code like here (probably a bad example) that concatenates the python major-minor versions. A better technique would be to avoid thinking about it and use sysconfig.get_config_var('py_version_nodot').

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