Re: Dropping Support Python 2

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On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 07:02:43AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> I'm proposing to stop actively supporting Python 2, which the Python
> developers stopped supporting it at the start of 2020.  The particular
> motivation for this is that the CI tests no longer work because the CI
> system appears to no longer have a Python 2 build available, but it
> seems an appropriate change at this point in time anyway.
>
> This doesn't involve any code changes since the same generated Python
> code works for both Python 2 and Python 3 - the change is really just
> to the documentation (to say that only Python 3 is actively supported)
> and to the CI config.
>
> So we'll actually still be generating code that probably works for
> Python 2, it's just that we'll now deem this an unsupported combination
> and if it breaks we won't put effort into fixing it.  However if someone
> submitted a clean patch I'd very likely still merge it.

I fully support this. It doesn't make sense to support Python 2 in 2021.

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Dmitry Shachnev

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