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

[Ralf Gommers]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> drop 2.6
>
> I still don't understand why folks insist that they need to run a (very))
> old python on an old OS, but need the latest and greatest numpy.
>
> Chuck's list was pretty long and compelling.
>
> -CHB
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > As a strawman proposal, how about dropping moving to 2.7 and 3.4 minimum
>> > supported version next fall, say around numpy 1.12 or 1.13 depending on
>> how
>> > the releases go.
>> >
>> > I would like to here from the scipy folks first.
>>
>
+1 for dropping Python 2.6, 3.2 and 3.3 after branching 1.11.x. We're
already behind other projects like ipython, pandas and matplotlib as usual,
so there really isn't much point in being the only project (together with
scipy) of the core stack to keep on supporting more or less obsolete Python
versions.

Ralf



>> Personally I would be in favor of this, because 2.7 and 3.4 are the
>> minimum
>> versions anyone should consider to use. However, for SciPy which heavily
>> depends on Python code, the real improvement will be when we can bump the
>> minimum Python version to 3.5 and write x @ y instead of dot(x,y). I am
>> not
>> sure of bumping the minimum version to 3.4 before that is worth it or not.
>> But certainly dropping 2.6 might be a good thing already now, so we can
>> start to use bytes, bytearray, memoryview, etc.
>>
>> Sturla
>>
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