On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 10:26:15PM -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 2/15/20 10:07 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > >> I'm curious, why is it necessary to support Python 2? > > I forget what the discussion is regarding why we chose those versions. > > From what I understand, requiring 2.7 (as opposed to some earlier 2.x) > > makes things easier. Probably we will not allow 2.7 after some time or > > whenever it would be a pain to maintain 2.7 compatibility for a > > particular issue. > > It's only quite recently that we've managed to make all of our scripts > compatible with Python 3. Like, in the 2.3.x series? The reason why we > did not just switch to Python 3 had originally to do with two things, I > think. First, the Windows installer has used Python 2 for a while, and > we are reluctant to change that lest we break things. Second, there have > long been issues about detecting the right version of Python, especially > (again) on Windows.
Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense. Scott
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