On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Alternatively, if you don't care about the OS-provided Python (perhaps > you're providing your own, or you expect your users to install from > source), then I think it is acceptable to target 2.7 and 3.3 or better > (e.g. drop support for 3.1 and 3.2). 3.0 is not supported at all -- it was > a buggy release and was quickly dropped for 3.1. If you're not constrained > by "yum python3" or "apt-get python3", then 3.3 is probably the version you > should aim for.
That's about the size of it. I'm quite happy to work with a 3.4 alpha, but when it comes to installation instructions, "get this and compile it" is a lot less helpful than "install python3 via your OS package manager" (especially since compiling Python from source also means getting the development versions of whatever modules you need - apt-getting a bunch of -dev packages, or whatever - and if you don't get them, some modules mightn't work even though core Python does). Hence I'd like to stick to OS-provided versions *where reasonable* - I'm not going to warp my code around Python 2.4 unless there's a large slab of users on that, but I will restrict myself to Pike 7.8.700 because it's worth the effort. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
