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

[Julian Taylor]

dropping 3.2: +-0 as it would remove some extra code in our broken py3
string handling but not much
dropping 3.3: -1 doesn't gain us anything so far I know
dropping 2.6: -1, I don't see not enough advantage the only issue I know
of is an occasional set literal which gets caught by our test-suite
immediately. Besides 2.6 is still the default in RHEL6. But if there is
something larger which makes it worthwhile I don't know about I have no
objections.


On 04.12.2015 10:27, David Cournapeau wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto:bryanv at continuum.io>> wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >> On Dec 3, 2015, at 4:59 PM, Eric Firing <efiring at hawaii.edu
>     <mailto: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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