python 3.7 compatibility problem

[Seburath]

Details

This is the Fisrt Issue I publish, sorry If It have mistakes

Im trying to run my the readthedocs site on my machine, but I get an error.
On:

python manage.py migrate

Expected Result

Server running...

Actual Result

SyntaxError: Generator expression must be parenthesized

[Seburath]

@stsewd make me understand that this is not urgent, so I will be working here :)

[stsewd]

Just to be clear, this error only happens when running rtd with python 3.7, it works fine with <=3.6.

[aanm]

I'm hitting the same issue.

  File "/home/aanm/rtd/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/widgets.py", line 152
    '%s=%s' % (k, v) for k, v in params.items(),
    ^
SyntaxError: Generator expression must be parenthesized

[dojutsu-user]

@aanm
The reason for this error is that Django 1.11 is not compatible with Python3.7 and probably there are no plans to make Django 1.11 compatible with latest version of python. (see the discussion here)
Please stick to Python<=3.6

[stsewd]

Python3.7 support was added to django 1.11.17 (released the past december) https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/releases/1.11.17/. I'll update the version soon.

[davidfischer]

I believe Celery is also not yet compatible with 3.7.

[stsewd]

Yeah, celery/celery#4913 (comment), and we are blocked in the celery update #4643

[humitos]

I believe this is not an issue anymore since we upgraded celery finally. On the other hand, we are now mentioning that 3.6 is the Python version to use: https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/development/install.html#requirements

I'm closing it for now since we don't plan to officially support > 3.6 for now.

[sivaraam]

I believe this is not an issue anymore since we upgraded celery finally. On the other hand, we are now mentioning that 3.6 is the Python version to use: docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/development/install.html#requirements

While that was nice, it's sad that the documentation didn't help me realize quickly that RTF does not run with Python 3.7 (which to be honest, is very strange given that 3.7 is needed for building the docs locally!). I had to search through a related issues to find this weirdness. The fact that the hyperlink for the "Python 3.6" text in the documentation just links to the Python website homepage didn't help me either.

Given that distributions have started shipping Python version > 3.6 by default (Python 3.8.2 in Ubuntu 20.04 at the time of writing), it would be great if the documentation is updated to mention that RTD doesn't support Python version > 3.6 yet for running as a least measure. Thanks.