On Feb 9, 2012 5:04 PM, "Hyrum K Wright" <hyrum.wri...@wandisco.com> wrote: > > I find myself wanting to use the 'with' statement in the test suite, > which was introduced in Python 2.5 Python 2.5 was released 5.5 years > ago, and while I'm sure somebody on some archaic platform somewhere > doesn't have it installed, I think we can reasonably assume that > Python 2.5 is generally available. For reference, we currently > require and SQLite that is only 2.5-years-old. > > (And for the historically minded among us, let's please don't repeat > the same bikeshed we had when we bumped to Python 2.4 3 years ago: > http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-01/0266.shtml) > > I would like to recommend we bump our minimum required version for the > test suite and development tools to Python 2.5. > > Thoughts?
2.5 is the builtin Python on my Leopard-based Mac laptop. Fine with me, but nothing newer for now :-) Is the version documented anywhere, or just in our community headspace? Cheers, -g
