[yt-dev] Re: Dropping Python 3.6

It is done 🎉 Thank you all ! Clément

On 21 Oct 2021, at 14:23, Matthew Turk wrote:

Yeah, I say drop it.

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 4:19 AM wrote:

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+1 !

On 21/10/2021 02:27, John ZuHone wrote:

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+1

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On Oct 20, 2021, at 8:45 PM, Cameron Hummels wrote:

? No objections here.

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 3:01 PM Cl?ment Robert via yt-dev mailto:yt-dev@python.org> wrote:

Update: today s the day I announced as the earliest possible time to do this, and no one has opposed. For closure, I initially planned to add support for Python 3.10 *before* dropping 3.6 but alas it turns out that our dependencies are not ready yet. Most notably matplotlib is still due for a release with Python 3.10 wheels, and there s not much we can do before that happens. I don t think now that it should stop us from dropping 3.6 anyway. Any objections ?

Cl?ment

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On 21 Sep 2021, at 04:09, John ZuHone mailto:jzuhone@gmail.com> wrote:

+1

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On Sep 20, 2021, at 6:45 PM, Michael Zingale mailto:michael.zingale@stonybrook.edu> wrote:

? sounds good to me.

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 2:44 PM Cl?ment Robert via yt-dev mailto:yt-dev@python.org> wrote:

Dear yt dev team,

As was previously mentioned in yt 4.0.0's release notes, we're currently planning to drop support for Python 3.6 in our next feature release (4.1.0) I propose that this change be performed on the dev branch of yt *by late* *October this year*, but *not earlier than October the 20th.*

As was discussed on Slack, I would like to send an official announcement to yt-users@python.org mailto:yt-users@python.org, but I ll leave open to discussion for a week first, or as long as necessary for the discussion to resolve happily.

Here's the PR to drop Python 3.6 https://github.com/yt-project/yt/pull/2917 https://github.com/yt-project/yt/pull/2917 Please take minute to either?request changes, discuss and/or approve it.

*_Nice implications_*

This means we'll soon be able to use Python 3.7+ only syntax and features. Here are the two key highlights that I personally think are most impactful for yt:

* ?`from __future__ import annotations` can be used to leverage modern Python annotations features from more recent versions (as late as 3.11 !) This will be extremely useful to improve typing in yt, and in support to YTEP 0038 https://github.com/yt-project/ytep/pull/17 https://github.com/yt-project/ytep/pull/17?Here's a gist with some showcase examples of how this __future__ import helps simplifying typed code https://gist.github.com/neutrinoceros/0eaa046a00689254dee0738c65c9bdfc https://gist.github.com/neutrinoceros/0eaa046a00689254dee0738c65c9bdfc * the `dataclasses` module becomes available https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.7.html#whatsnew37-pep557 https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.7.html#whatsnew37-pep557

See the detailed "what's new" note from Python 3.7.0 for more https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.7.html https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.7.html

*_Additional notes_* *_ _*

* Python 3.6 is 5 years old and will be EOL (end of life) by December https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0494/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0494/ * Numpy dropped support for Python 3.6 in numpy 1.20.0, released in January 2021 https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.20.0 https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.20.0 * Matplotlib dropped support fot Python 3.6 in matplotlib 3.4.0, released in March 2021 https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/commit/f9907b49f9d00c03cf014a25d057... https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/commit/f9907b49f9d00c03cf014a25d057... * Python 3.10 will be officially released early October https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0619/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0619/ * Adding support for 3.10 should be a breeze^{TM}: we've been running a subset of our test suite against it (+ future versions of matplotlib and numpy) for a couple months, so the expected most important bottleneck for us will depend on when numpy and matplotlib are able to publish wheels for 3.10 * The plan is to first add support to 3.10 and *then* drop 3.6. * This is in agreement with NEP 29, which was coauthored by our own release manager, Madicken Munk https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0029-deprecation_policy.html https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0029-deprecation_policy.html * ?Various 3.7+ idioms will now be continuously enforced with pyupgrade https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade?which is already part of our pre-commit toolbelt.

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