Dropping support for 2.7 in 2020

[Stéfan van der Walt]

On Wed, 18 May 2016 at 00:40 Emmanuelle Gouillart <
emmanuelle.gouillart at nsup.org> wrote:

>
> > It's probably not terribly much, but it does prohibit us from making use
> of
> > newer language features as they develop.
>
> Any pointer about such new features so that ignorant people like myself
> can educate themselves :-D?
>

Here are a few, compliments of Aaron Muerer:

http://asmeurer.github.io/python3-presentation/python3-presentation.pdf

> I should emphasize that I think it's perfectly reasonable to keep
> > supporting an older release of scikit-image for 2.7, just not the
> > latest release.
>
> Of course. It's possible that in 2020 we'll have reached a "stationary
> state" as NumPy, and that new releases will mostly be about bug fixes and
> improved documentation. But we're still on a fast growing curve, so it's
> hard to know.


:D  Feature complete!  That will be a day for celebration.

Stéfan
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