ecoutils py37+ prep

boltons/ecoutils.py

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 Some basic variations that are common among development machines:
 
 * **Executable runtime**: CPython, PyPy, Jython, etc., plus build date and compiler
-* **Language version**: 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7... 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
+* **Language version**: 2.7 through 3.12
 * **Host operating system**: Windows, OS X, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RHEL, etc.
 * **Features**: 64-bit, IPv6, Unicode character support (UCS-2/UCS-4)
 * **Built-in library support**: OpenSSL, threading, SQLite, zlib
@@ -73,13 +73,18 @@
 Compatibility
 -------------
 
-So far ecoutils has has been tested on Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.4,
-3.5, and PyPy. Various versions have been tested on Ubuntu, Debian,
+So far ecoutils has has been tested on Python 3.7+ and PyPy3. 
+Various versions have been tested on Ubuntu, Debian,
 RHEL, OS X, FreeBSD, and Windows 7.
 
-.. note:: Boltons typically only support back to Python 2.6, but due
-    to its nature, ecoutils extends backwards compatibility to Python
-    2.4 and 2.5.
+.. note:: 
+
+   ``boltons.ecoutils`` historically supported back to Python 2.4, but in 2024, 
+    due to increasing testing burden, ecoutils support tracks the same 
+    versions of Python as the rest of the boltons package. 
+    For older Pythons, see `this version`_ from boltons 23.0.0.
+
+.. _this version: https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/4b1d728f31a8378b193be9c966c853be0a57527d/boltons/ecoutils.py
 
 Profile generation
 ------------------
@@ -158,7 +163,7 @@
 import datetime
 import platform
 
-ECO_VERSION = '1.0.1'  # see version history below
+ECO_VERSION = '1.1.0'  # see version history below
 
 
 try:
@@ -249,7 +254,14 @@
     RLIMIT_FDS_SOFT, RLIMIT_FDS_HARD = 0, 0
 
 
-START_TIME_INFO = {'time_utc': str(datetime.datetime.utcnow()),
+def _get_utc_now():
+    try:
+        return datetime.datetime.utcnow()
+    except Exception:
+        return datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC)
+
+
+START_TIME_INFO = {'time_utc': str(_get_utc_now()),
                    'time_utc_offset': -time.timezone / 3600.0}
 
 
@@ -318,7 +330,8 @@ def get_profile(**kwargs):
                     'machine': uname[4],
                     'processor': uname[5]}
     try:
-        linux_dist = platform.linux_distribution()
+        # TODO: removed in 3.7, replaced with freedesktop_os_release in 3.10
+        linux_dist = platform.linux_distribution()  
     except Exception:
         linux_dist = ('', '', '')
     ret['linux_dist_name'] = linux_dist[0]
@@ -466,6 +479,7 @@ def _args2cmd(args, sep=' '):
 The version is ECO_VERSION module-level constant, and _eco_version key
 in the dictionary returned from ecoutils.get_profile().
 
+1.1.0 - (boltons version 24.0.0+) Drop Python <=3.6 compat
 1.0.1 - (boltons version 16.3.2+) Remove uuid dependency and add HAVE_URANDOM
 1.0.0 - (boltons version 16.3.0-16.3.1) Initial release