[python-win32] Dropping support for Python 2.3?

[Kris Hardy]

+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 for 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
>later
>> 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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