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Suggestion: drop support for Python 3.3 #218

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simonw opened this issue Mar 19, 2021 · 2 comments
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Suggestion: drop support for Python 3.3 #218

simonw opened this issue Mar 19, 2021 · 2 comments

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@simonw
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simonw commented Mar 19, 2021

The tests failed on Python 3.3 for #217 with this error:

ERROR: You need Python 2.7 or 3.4+ to install the typing package.

I'm not sure what depends on typing but since Python 3.3 reached end-of-life on 2017-09-29 (according to https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0398/#lifespan) I think it's safe to drop support entirely.

@Querela
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Querela commented Mar 24, 2021

You could even drop support for python<=3.5 as those are also EOL.
New users/developers should have current python versions installed (or should be encouraged to do so, e. g. even with MiniConda as a last resort), so only supporting python>=3.6 might be better and allows for newer features to be used and included.
And those that absolutely require old (unsupported) python versions can use existing/old versions of the library. The risk of security vulnarabilities because of this library are likely smaller than using an ancient python version. Probably.
--> https://endoflife.date/python

@jamesls
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jamesls commented Jan 31, 2022

Consolidating python version deprecations to tracking issue #268

@jamesls jamesls closed this as completed Jan 31, 2022
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