Thanks for all the work you folks do on Pywikibot, it's really a gem in the
ecosystem.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 11:45 AM Martin Urbanec <mar...@urbanec.cz> wrote:

> As the last release of Python 2 is finally out, the July release of
> Pywikibot is going to be the **last release that supports Python 2**.
> Support of Python 3.4 and MediaWiki older than 1.19 is also going to be
> dropped. After this release, Pywikibot is not going to receive any further
> patches and bug fixes related to those Python and MediaWiki versions.
> Functions and other stuff specific to Python 3.4, Python 2.x or MediaWiki
> older than 1.19 will be removed.
>
> For your convenience, this release is marked with a "python2"
> git tag and it is also the last 3.0.x release. In case you really need it,
> the Pywikibot team created /shared/pywikibot/core_python2 repository in
> Toolforge and a python2-pywikibot package in software repositories of some
> operating systems.
>
> The Pywikibot team strongly recommends that you migrate your scripts from
> Python 2 to Python 3. The migration steps were described in the previous
> message, which can be found here:
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikibot/2020-January/009976.html
> Detailed plan of Python 2 deprecation with dates is described here:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Compatibility
>
> If you encounter any problems with the migration, you can always ask us
> here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242120
>
> Best regards,
>
> Pywikibot team
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