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Drop support for Python < 3.4 #113

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Marcelo-Theodoro opened this issue Jan 12, 2019 · 5 comments
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Drop support for Python < 3.4 #113

Marcelo-Theodoro opened this issue Jan 12, 2019 · 5 comments

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@Marcelo-Theodoro
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Marcelo-Theodoro commented Jan 12, 2019

What are your opinions about dropping support for Python < 3.4?

Python 2.7 is reaching end-of-life soon. And Python 3.0 to 3.3 are not supported anymore.

Maybe we could give an step foward and drop support for 3.4 too, because it's end of life will be in two months.

This will help us to support new versions of some frameworks while keeping the code clear.

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@seocam Anything to say here?

@Marcelo-Theodoro Marcelo-Theodoro changed the title Drop support for Python > 3.4 Drop support for Python < 3.4 Jan 13, 2019
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hugovk commented Jan 13, 2019

Drop 3.0 to 3.4.

Once EOL, they no longer receiving security updates (or any updates) from the core Python team.

Version Release date Supported until
2.5 2006-09-19 2011-05-26
2.6 2008-10-01 2013-10-29
3.0 2008-12-03 2009-06-27
3.1 2009-06-27 2012-04-09
3.2 2011-02-20 2016-02-27
3.3 2012-09-29 2017-09-29

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPython#Version_history

They're also little used.

Here's the pip installs for restless from PyPI for December 2018:

category percent downloads
2.7 63.33% 1,900
3.6 25.23% 757
3.7 9.30% 279
3.5 1.17% 35
null 0.83% 25
3.4 0.13% 4
Total 3,000

Source: pypistats python_minor --last-month restless

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seocam commented Jan 15, 2019

I'm ok with dropping support from 3.0 to 3.4 (included). @toastdriven anything to add here?

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Nope, it was simply state-of-the-art at the time. Drop it!

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hugovk commented Jan 15, 2019

Please see PR #116.

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