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Dropping Python 2 support #819
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As Python 2.7 has now reached its end of life, I think it's time to drop all the special cases to support it. I propose to have 0.20 as last version with Python 2.7 support. @supakeen, @thomasballinger, what do you think?
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thomasballinger commentedon Jul 11, 2020
That sounds good to me!
For clarify for others reading (and to confirm) I assume we would not be yanking the old releases or anything, so installing bpython in Python 2 would continue to work; it just wouldn't get any updates.
supakeen commentedon Jul 11, 2020
I'm +1 for dropping support (as I added warnings in 0.19) however I might be wary of dropping it so 'quickly'?
Do you propose removing all the special cases or to not pay attention to them anymore for 0.21?
@thomasballinger Yea we won't yank old releases :)
thomasballinger commentedon Jul 12, 2020
It doesn't feel too quick to me, if there were a show-stopping bug we could do a point release. (thanks for adding those warnings too!)
supakeen commentedon Jul 12, 2020
Then I agree on the timeframe; @sebastinas did you want to remove all the
if py3stuff and make it the default or not pay attention to them moving forwards?sebastinas commentedon Jul 13, 2020
I actually want to remove all the
if py3code in 0.21. Leaving them in the code base would give the false impression that we still care about Python 2 after we dropped support for it.Considering how often we prepare releases, 0.21 would only happen sometime sometime in 2021. This will give people some time to move on.
supakeen commentedon Jul 13, 2020
Yea that makes sense; probably 0.20 somewhere this year if I get to my assigned bugs then 0.21 somewhere first half of next year. I'd love to remove as much as possible in that release (see also the frontends ticket in #820 ).
sebastinas commentedon Oct 14, 2020
Fixed in 07f4fe3 and plenty of commits before that one.