Dropping support for 2.7 in 2020

[Nelle Varoquaux]

On 18 May 2016 at 19:54, Emmanuelle Gouillart
<emmanuelle.gouillart at nsup.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 05:42:23PM +0000, Thomas Caswell wrote:
>> The proposed release schedule for mpl is being discussed at https://
>> mail.python.org/pipermail/matplotlib-devel/2016-May/000374.html
>
>> The key point is that 'dropping python2' only means 'for new releases', all of
>> the existing packaged code will continue to work.  How often do users want to
>> install cutting edge skimage on top of system python2?
>
> It happened to me yesterday :-). When I wanted to install 0.12 on a
> server at the synchrotron, where they have powerful stations really
> useful for my processing pipeline, but they are running Debian Wheezy and
> don't have ipython or matplotlib for python3. Also on such machines, I
> only have ssh access, no http/s, so no pip install... Such situations are
> not so unusual in the industry / at large facilities.

I think that still happens to a lot of people. In the two institutes I
currently work at, one has recently moved from python 2.3 to python
2.6, and the other one from python 2.6 to python 2.7. In both cases,
it took around 8 years to have an OS upgrade, so I wouldn't hold my
breath for a new one any time soon.

Cheers,
N

>
> Cheers,
> Emma
>
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