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[PATCH v3 3/3] doc: add required python versions to docs

From: John McNamara <hidden>
Date: 2016-12-18 14:32:52
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

Add a requirement to support both Python 2 and 3 to the
DPDK Python Coding Standards and Getting started Guide.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <redacted>
---
 doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst | 3 ++-
 doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst        | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst
index 1eb67f3..4163960 100644
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst
@@ -690,6 +690,7 @@ Control Statements
 Python Code
 -----------
 
-All python code should be compliant with `PEP8 (Style Guide for Python Code) <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/>`_.
+All Python code should work with Python 2.7+ and 3.2+ and be compliant with
+`PEP8 (Style Guide for Python Code) <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/>`_.
 
 The ``pep8`` tool can be used for testing compliance with the guidelines.
diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
index 3d74342..9653a13 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Compilation of the DPDK
 
 .. note::
 
-    Python, version 2.6 or 2.7, to use various helper scripts included in the DPDK package.
+    Python, version 2.7+ or 3.2+, to use various helper scripts included in the DPDK package.
 
 
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