Drop support for older Python
pombredanne opened this issue · 3 comments
pombredanne commented
It is time to drop support (at least in the CI) for older Python 3 versions before 3.4 IMHO (and later Python 2.7)
hugovk commented
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Python 2.7 and 3.0 - 3.4 are EOL and no longer receiving security updates (or any updates) from the core Python team.
| Version | Release date | Supported until |
|---|---|---|
| 2.7 | 2010-07-03 | 2020-01-01 |
| 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 |
| 3.4 | 2014-03-16 | 2019-03-16 |
They're also little used. Here's the pip installs for dparse from PyPI for December 2019:
| category | percent | downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 3.7 | 42.60% | 88,825 |
| 3.6 | 31.92% | 66,553 |
| 3.5 | 10.27% | 21,412 |
| 2.7 | 8.25% | 17,203 |
| 3.8 | 6.15% | 12,831 |
| 3.4 | 0.46% | 954 |
| null | 0.29% | 607 |
| 2.6 | 0.05% | 110 |
| 3.9 | 0.01% | 22 |
| Total | 208,517 |
Source: pip install -U pypistats && pypistats python_minor dparse --last-month
pombredanne commented
@hugovk thanks!
rafaelpivato commented
Love those details. Thanks for that. We did this with #43