Drop support for EOL Python 2.6 and 3.3 #546
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Further to #455, I'd like to suggest dropping support for Python 2.6 and 3.3. Both are EOL (2.6 for four years), meaning they no longer receive updates, including security updates.
Removing them will help ease the maintenance burden, and allow to use more modern features of Python. Travis CI will also quicker, from ~23 min run time (total time ~1 hr 4 min) to ~11 min run time (total time ~43 min).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPython#Version_history
See also:
They're also little used. Here's the pip installs for babel from PyPI for the last month (via
pypinfo --percent --pip --markdown babel pyversion
).This PR also adds
python_requires
to help pip and does some minor tidy ups.