Hi, I'm planning to drop support for CPython 2.3 right in the next release. If anyone feels an urgent need for it to stay supported, please provide a solid line of reasoning in response to this e-mail, preferably accompanied by a funding plan. Basically, CPython 2.3 lacks several features at the language, standard library and C level that make a developer's and distributor's life easier. It was followed by Python 2.4 seven years ago and has not received even security updates for more than three years. There have been seven newer release series of CPython since then, so it's not just resting, it's a truly dead parrot. Stefan