Hi all. Picking up this old thread, I propose we announce that 0.18 is the last release that will support Python 2.6. That will give people some time to think about it between releases. Wdyt? Andy On 01/04/2016 08:28 AM, Gael Varoquaux wrote:

Happy new year everybody,

As a new year resolution, I suggest that we drop Python 2.6 compatibility.

For an argumentation in this favor, see http://www.snarky.ca/stop-using-python-2-6 (I don't buy everything there, but the core idea is there).

For us, this will mean more usage of context managers, which is good.

The down side is that many clusters run RedHat variant that are still under 2.6 (Duh!). The question is: are people using the stock Python on the clusters, or something else.

Opinions please?

Gaël

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