Dropping support for 2.7 in 2020

[Himanshu Mishra]

Just a pointer : Ubuntu 16.04 has officially removed Python 2 from the
distribution. So yes, *people will be* moving to Python 3 now.
On 18 May 2016 1:22 pm, "Stéfan van der Walt" <stefanv at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> 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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