[python-win32] Dropping support for Python 2.3?

[Michael Manfre]

Anyone running a no longer supported version of Python on Windows has
already made the conscious decision that upgrading their code to newer
versions is not worth the cost. No point in shifting that cost to pywin32
maintenance. +1 on dropping all code from any version of Python that no
longer receives security updates.

Regards,
Michael Manfre

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Kris Hardy <kris at rhs.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've been happy to drop support for a couple of years, but while it kept
>> working I kept building it :)  I can't recall if 2.4 is built with vc6
>>
>> too - if so, we might as well kill that too.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>> On 26/03/2013 8:33 PM, Vernon D. Cole wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps it is time...
>>>
>>> I found a copy of Python 2.3 to load onto a new computer in order to
>>> test my software, but it was not easy.  It is in the small print about
>>> four pages down from the download page on python.org
>>>
>>> <http://python.org>.  I was one of 432 people who have downloaded the
>>> 2.3 installer for pywin32 build 218.  Compared with 121,351 downloaded
>>> installers fo
>>>  r
>>> Python 3.3 and 2.7 combined, 431 is 0.35 percent of our
>>> users. I discounted myself, because the only reason I downloaded the
>>> package was to make sure I have not broken something by using a new
>>> feature.  I wonder how many of the others of that 432 are for similar
>>>
>>> reasons.  Most, I would bet.
>>>
>>> Supporting that zero point three percent is costly, in terms of lost
>>> features.  Adodbapi is not a large module, but there are half a dozen
>>> places in it which deal specifically with Python 2.3 -- such as "import
>>>
>>> win32com.decimal.decimal_23 as decimal" for example.  There are two
>>> places which work around not having generator expressions, and a big
>>> question in the comments about handling the difference between long and
>>>
>>> int integers, and whether that is done correctly. There is also a
>>> confusing code block for float conversion with commas versus dots.  All
>>> of that goes away if I simply change the "all versions of CPython lat
>>>  er
>>> than,,," line.
>>>
>>> The important differences in Python 2.4
>>> * decimal.Decimal
>>> * generator expressions
>>> * built in set objects
>>> * Decorators
>>> * unified integers
>>> * locale-independent float/string conversion
>>>
>>> * reverse iteration
>>>
>>> I am starting an informal poll...
>>>
>>> Is it really worthwhile to keep maintaining support for Python 2.3,
>>> which was released in 2005 and has not been updated since 2008?
>>> --
>>> Vernon
>>>
>>>
>>>
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