[Numpy-discussion] When to stop supporting Python 2.6?

David Cournapeau cournape at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 04:27:47 EST 2015


I would be in favour of dropping 3.3, but not 2.6 until it becomes too
cumbersome to support.

As a data point, as of april, 2.6 was more downloaded than all python 3.X
versions together when looking at pypi numbers:
https://caremad.io/2015/04/a-year-of-pypi-downloads/

David

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Jeff Reback <jeffreback at gmail.com> wrote:

> pandas is going to drop
> 2.6 and 3.3 next release at end of Jan
>
> (3.2 dropped in 0.17, in October)
>
>
>
> I can be reached on my cell 917-971-6387
> > On Dec 3, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Bryan Van de Ven <bryanv at continuum.io>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Dec 3, 2015, at 4:59 PM, Eric Firing <efiring at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> Chuck,
> >>
> >> I would support dropping the old versions now.  As a related data
> point, matplotlib is testing master on 2.7, 3.4, and 3.5--no more 2.6 and
> 3.3.
> >
> > Ditto for Bokeh.
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