[Python-Dev] Windows XP, Python 3.5 and PEP 11

[Zachary Ware]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if Python 3.5 will still support Windows XP or
> not. Almost all flavors of Windows XP reached the end-of-life in
> April, 2014 except "Windows XP Embedded". There is even an hack to use
> Windows upgrades on the desktop flavor using the embedded flavor (by
> changing a key in the registry). Extracts of the Wikipedia page:

This was recently discussed in the "Moving Python 3.5 on Windows to a
new compiler" thread, where Martin declared XP support to be ended
[1].  I believe Tim Golden is the only resident Windows dev from whom
I haven't seen at least implicit agreement that XP doesn't need
further support, so I'd say our support for XP is well and truly dead
:)

In any case, surely anyone stuck with XP can be happy with Python 3.4.
I'm perfectly fine with 3.2 on Win2k!

-- 
Zach

[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-June/134903.html