Re: getmail with python 3 adpatations

Matthias Andree <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Compatibility that comes at little effort, ok, but if it starts with
> writing dozens of lines of workarounds for an old system, not gonna
> happen, sorry.

I wouldn't write a lot of new compatibility code for old Python versions
today; there are some things in getmail that just don't work if you're on a
really old Python.  But the existing codebase is compatible back to Python
2.3.3, and there's not a lot of point doing work to remove that compatibility
for anything less than a full modern refactoring targeting Python 3.6 or 3.7.

> Moving towards Python >= 3.5 or better >= 3.7 (so it doesn't go out of
> support in less than half a year's time) would seem the reasonable approach.

I use 3.7 for everything I'm doing currently, and look forward to when 3.8 is
supported in the stacks we use so I can migrate to that version.

Charles
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