<div><div dir="auto">Ubuntu 14.04 (which admittedly goes EOL in April) is still on python 3.4, for example.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 5:28 PM Matthew Brett <<a href="mailto:matthew.brett@gmail.com">matthew.brett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 10:40 PM, Thomas Caswell <<a href="mailto:tcaswell@gmail.com" target="_blank">tcaswell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> These are derived from today's call:<br>
><br>
> Pro 3.6:<br>
> - by the time we release, 3.7 will be out so will support "two most recent<br>
> python"<br>
> - this gives 3 years of support on master of each python version<br>
> (assuming python sticks<br>
> - ordered, faster dictionaries (as implementation detail in 3.6, guaranteed<br>
> in 3.7)<br>
> - guaranteed ordered kwargs / class definitions (do precedence of<br>
> conflicting kwaargs)<br>
> - fstrings<br>
> - fspath / pathlib protocol<br>
><br>
> Con 3.6:<br>
> - feels a bit agressive as 3.7 is not out yet<br>
> - might get ahead of some LTS releases<br>
> - but older version of Matplotlib will still work<br>
> - user-space environments go along way to fixing this<br>
> - conda<br>
> -<br>
> <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-python-3-and-set-up-a-local-programming-environment-on-centos-7" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-python-3-and-set-up-a-local-programming-environment-on-centos-7</a><br>
> - ubuntu 18.04 is planned to be py3.6 by default<br>
><br>
> Pro 3.5:<br>
> - more conservative approach<br>
> - pypy3 support (but they will support 3.6 eventually)<br>
><br>
> The consensus on the call and on gitter seems to be for 3.6 as the minimum.<br>
<br>
Man - that seems pretty extreme. Are the 3.6 features really worth<br>
it? There must be a lot of Linuces at Python 3.5, even at the most<br>
recent distribution. Was there by any chance a majority of conda<br>
users on the call?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Matthew<br>
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